#image

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#behind #curiosity #determination #each #get

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see. ↗

— Angela Bassett

#allow #america #black #career #celluloid

I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image. ↗

— Alan Bates

#affects #always #because #career #commercial

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#dropped #image #needs #still #you

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#flashes #image #instant #never #only

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ↗

— John Berger

#any #belongs #does #drawing #however

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#attitude #becomes #contracted #everyone #eye

I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#age #done #find #having #i

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#body-image #diet-industry #eating-disorders #self-esteem #weight

The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation. ↗

— Amit Abraham

#art