Homme has described Lullabies to Paralyze as a "dark" album, which includes imagery inspired by The Brothers Grimm folk and fairy tales.
The ads employ imagery inspired by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel fresco, with the divine hand extending five hypodermic syringes for injecting heroin or cocaine.
Trying to show the Divine in earthly manifestations, the two produced deeply spiritual imagery inspired by nature.
The album cover is notable for mimicking M. C. Escher's Relativity, but featuring imagery inspired by each of the song titles.
Robert Weiss's imagery in "Archetypes" (Paul Schwartz), inspired by Jonathan Borofsky's paintings, offended many on the grounds that it was ugly in its depiction of disillusionment and rejection.
Illmatic contains imagery inspired by this prevalence of street crime.
The film makes heavy use of imagery inspired by experimental cinema and psychedelic drug experiences.
When it comes to defending street credibility, no one outdoes Japan's Bathing Ape, which makes T-shirts, cargo pants and jackets with imagery inspired by the film "Planet of the Apes."
Its surrealist imagery, inspired by Magritte paintings, lends it a thread of visual zaniness (although there are several too many images of shaved fish).
Russell also uses imagery inspired by silent comedy and expressionist horror films.