Mental Image Quotes

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person.

Usually, a number of events will be going on around me to start me on a book. What I mean is, I will have read a poem or seen a picture that is lingering in my mind.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.

If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

What is the image you have of yourself?

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.

The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Memory is imagination pinned down.

In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like.

I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.

Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.

Painting demands an intelligent model.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.