Visuals Quotes · Page 9

Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at…

— John Walford

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect…

— David Doubilet

My favourite stuff is visual, and I always want to work with visual artwork. I think it depends on the person, but…

— Neill Blomkamp

I don't think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can…

— Lisa Randall

Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting, no exciting…

— Tim Hughes

I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether…

— PJ Harvey

Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it…

— Douglas Crimp

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

— Edward Tufte

Every artist who evolves a style does so from illusive elements that inhabit his or her visual storehouse.

— Mary Carroll Nelson

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

— Marshall McLuhan

I think the media plays into the hands of false induction, genuine seduction taking place, wrong deductions, and the inevitable reductions. That's…

— Ravi Zacharias

I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a…

— Adamo Macri

Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about…

— Elia Kazan

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary....…

— Norman Mailer

A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs…

— Stephen King

I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it…

— Nas

The way it works in commercials is they come to you with the script and then you do the visual, you do…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in…

— DJ Spooky

Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

— Marshall McLuhan

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much…

— Jason Bateman

[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact…

— Max Pam

I have some advantages of viewing from the two lenses, the two perspectives. I think that a lot of visual artists who…

— Chath Piersath

A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without…

— Joan Miro

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty,…

— Mike Figgis