#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

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#destroy #done #foul #good #grandmother

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

The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values. ↗

— Claudia Kennedy

#damages #itself #live #own #up

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

I know there are thousands of images of me. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#images #know #me #thousands

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

Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth of her skin--is being reclassified as ugly, and ugliness as disease. These qualities are about an intensification of female power, which explains why they are being recast as a diminution of power. At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not exist on the woman's body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face? ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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