Visuals Quotes · Page 14

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

— David Denby

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of…

— Wayne Thiebaud

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

— Dorothea Lange

But, working with directors whose history is in performance, I feel like there's a different kind of focus, as opposed to directors…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

— Gary Gygax

I think film is about images. Cinema needs good images. I think that if you don’t have good images, it’s not going…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to…

— Josh Young

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language -…

— Damien Hirst

The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be…

— Terence McKenna

And this movie [Real Steel] definitely looks like nothing else I've made, which was the point. I think also, Evangeline and Hugh…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure…

— William Drenttel

Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

— Edward Tufte

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural…

— Harry Seidler

To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men…

— Joseph Campbell

For me, style is something that I've always loved. It's more than just, "Oh I make this type of music, so I…

— Leon Bridges

I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles,…

— Stephen Sondheim

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so…

— Keanu Reeves

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a…

— Michel de Certeau

When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals,…

— Josh Hartnett

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen...It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid...It's a strong…

— Freddie Mercury

I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and…

— Pedro Almodovar

[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the…

— Terence McKenna

If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard…

— Erik Wolpaw

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.

— Jeff VanderMeer