Visuals Quotes · Page 3

When I shut off the verbal, I like to escape into the visual.

— Elaine Equi

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

— Agnes Denes

Obviously, I'm in a visual business, and people will talk to me about my appearance.

— Megyn Kelly

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

— Rowan Atkinson

In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

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

— Jessica Hagedorn

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

— Richard Simmons

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

— Linus Torvalds

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

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

— David Denby

I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating…

— Roberta Williams

I loved all those Doris Day visuals of her being a tomboy and then changing into this gorgeous girl in a ballgown.

— Stella McCartney

Even if I don't think in visuals about the music while I'm doing it, after the music is finished, it could be…

— Trentemøller

The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and…

— Luigi Ghirri

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within…

— Henry David Thoreau

Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or…

— Scott D. Anthony

The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction…

— Clement Greenberg

When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then…

— Stephen Covey

The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality.…

— Ravi Zacharias

I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my…

— Dani Shapiro

I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels…

— Denise Duhamel

The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have…

— Tony Buzan

I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who…

— Anita Loos

When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of…

— Margaret Atwood

Again, when we view a scene fleetingly, do we consciously see all the details even though we don't retain them, or do…

— David Papineau

Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters,…

— Eugene Richards

In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended…

— Shirley Hazzard

During the preproduction when I'm shooting and then once we wrap we go away. And then the visual effects guys take over.…

— Gregory Nicotero

The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the…

— A. O. Scott

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is…

— Ellen McLaughlin

I try to remember dreams, and occasionally I'll make a note or two in a notebook if it's something extra interesting. They…

— Kenneth Anger

The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily…

— David Byrne

I'm a very visual person and I love the ability to tell stories through images.

— Mandana Dayani

I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

— Sofia Coppola

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

— Umberto Eco

Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking to the rest of the family.

— Lena Dunham

Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'.

— S. Janaki

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas