#mages

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#each #fix #images #made #measured

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. ↗

— Ingmar Bergman

#flesh #i #i write #images #scripts

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#call #external #how #i #i see

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#body-image #culture #eating-disorders #images #society

Beauty is so rare a th— Sing a new song Real Music A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A Visiting card — from 15 False Propositions Against God [1958] ↗

— Jack Spicer

#images #leap #poetry #beauty

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg. ↗

— Scarlett Thomas

#cybernetics #ideas #images #thoughts #life

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#expectations #experience #founded #images #memories

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#begins #calculated #delayed #desired #desiring

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? ↗

— Hugo Ball

#images #language #long #paradise #real

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line. ↗

— David Blaine

#digital #down #great #houdini #i