Visual Quotes

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.

The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.