#mages

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols. ↗

— John Hench

#because #communicate #course #enormous #even

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change. ↗

— Robert Hewison

#change #creative #hypnotized #images #improved

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own. ↗

— Leon Kass

#bad #creating #creature #destroy #god

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#continue #create #depths #embraces #form

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? ↗

— Andy Warhol

#images #life #repeat #series #themselves

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record. ↗

— Neil Young

#closed #commercial #crap #eyes #go

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#body-image #culture #eating-disorders #images #self-esteem

Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why should his reply have such exaggerated power? And it does. He does not know that what he says will affect the way she feels when they next make love. She is angry for a number of good reasons that may have nothing to do with this particular man's intentions. The exchange reminds her that, in spite of a whole fabric of carefully woven equalities, they are not equal in this way that is so crucial that its snagged thread unravels the rest. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #images #marketing #media #scoiety