Abstract Imagery Quotes

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself to a meaning that is darkly divined yet still beyond our grasp, and cannot be adequately expressed in the familiar words of our language.

Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.