--- title: "7 Visual Culture Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 7 Visual Culture quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Visual Culture sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81f/grayson-perry-3535_art_you-don-t-work-in-a-vacuum-if-you-re-a-v_247389.jpg" --- > [You don't work in a vacuum. If you're a visual artist you work in a visual culture. If you're a pop musician…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/you-don-t-work-in-a-vacuum-if-you-re-a-visual-artist-you-work-in-a/) [Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81f/grayson-perry-3535_art_you-don-t-work-in-a-vacuum-if-you-re-a-v_247389.jpg) > [In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/in-the-seventies-a-group-of-american-artists-seized-the-means-not-of/) [Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/036/jerry-saltz-1712_america_in-the-seventies-a-group-of-american-art_517986.png) > [New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/new-yorkers-only-cross-water-for-visual-culture-if-the-water-is-an/) [Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47c/jerry-saltz-1712_bronx_new-yorkers-only-cross-water-for-visual_2100993.png) > [What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-j-mitchell/what-we-need-is-a-critique-of-visual-culture-that-is-alert-to-the/) [William J. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-j-mitchell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c1/william-j-mitchell-31611_capable_what-we-need-is-a-critique-of-visual-cul_2117824.jpg) > [I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-ve-had-moments-where-i-ve-met-people-who-were-complete-like-idiots/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f37/kehinde-wiley-1194_culture_i-ve-had-moments-where-i-ve-met-people-w_2865259.jpg) > [I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurston-moore/i-really-want-to-do-a-book-on-the-history-of-the-no-wave-music-scene/) [Thurston Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurston-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15e/thurston-moore-16089_book_i-really-want-to-do-a-book-on-the-histor_2888803.png) > [People who - and I think that's been a huge education for me. I think it's a - it's a privilege to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/people-who-and-i-think-that-s-been-a-huge-education-for-me-i-think-it/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/676/kehinde-wiley-1194_able_people-who-and-i-think-that-s-been-a-hug_3236695.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/visual-culture/#itemlist", "name": "Visual Culture Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You don't work in a vacuum. If you're a visual artist you work in a visual culture. If you're a pop musician you listen to pop music. 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