Visual Quotes

620 quotes by 523 authors

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make… — Wesley Morris
The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense,… — Paul Hirsch
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light,… — Sam Abell
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep… — Sam Abell
I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it.… — Neko Case
The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image. — Bob Gill
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. — Frank Darabont
...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable… — Toni Morrison
In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the artist. It defines… — Jacques Bertin
The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar from Americans, or… — Walter E. Williams
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more… — Howard S. Becker
I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve… — James Nachtwey
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness… — Aaron Scharf
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. — Thomas F. Wilson
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted… — Russell Banks
Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective. — Edward Tufte
Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why… — Gerhard Richter
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. — Derek Walcott
80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage. — Ellen Hollman
For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book. — Vilmos Zsigmond

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