An image (from Latin: imago) is an artifact that depicts or records visual perception, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject–usually a physical object or a person, thus providing a depiction of it.
Read more about Image: Characteristics, Moving Image
Famous quotes containing the word image:
“That myththat image of the madonna-motherhas disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are more than mothers. It has kept us from hearing their voices when they try to tell us their aspirations . . . kept us from believing that they share with men the desire for achievement, mastery, competencethe desire to do something for themselves.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)
“Lear. Thou hast seen a farmers dog bark at a beggar?
Gloucester. Ay, sir.
Lear. And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dogs obeyed in office.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“If the devil doesnt exist and, therefore, man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
—Feodor Dostoyevsky (18211881)