Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke. — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Beyonce is such a visual artist. This was just trying to figure out another side to her that could be fun and… — Bryce Wilson Copy Share Image
I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not… — Dee Dee Ramone Copy Share Image
Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone - those guys are consummate filmmakers. They believe that you don't talk it,… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
Human beings are really attuned to their senses. When you work in film, you are working with the visual and audio senses.… — John Dykstra Copy Share Image
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm never going to be one of those people who is good at organization. But I'm very visual. I have a catalog… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not… — Gilles Peress Copy Share Image
If a chemical drug like Viagra is accepted by society and by the world to ignite desire, then what is the problem… — Mallika Sherawat Copy Share Image
Big Data allows us to see patterns we have never seen before. This will clearly show us interdependence and connections that will… — Tiffany Shlain Copy Share Image
With the films, it starts off with certain coordinates in the world and seeing what happens. What happens if you place yourself… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
The Taboo scene was a kind of deconstructed version of the New Romantics. The Taboo crowd was using a lot of the… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Micromessaging -- communicating with other human beings through visual, audible, sublingual means, no doubt predates our ability to speak. We actually read… — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
One thing that is very different technically is that you don't get a lot of coverage in television. Not like you do… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy. — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual,… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I saw a commercial for the maxi pads for the bigger gals they're making now. That was a nice visual while I… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions. — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at. — Robert Gober Copy Share Image
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist - moving an audience through a movie ... making them think the way you want them… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art,… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and… — Peter Steele Copy Share Image