Visual Quotes

620 quotes by 523 authors

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium. — Lee Strobel
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather… — James Laughlin
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't… — Jonathan Lethem
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that… — Jeff VanderMeer
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. — Dar Williams
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There… — John Walford
Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on… — John Walford
As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely… — John Walford
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie. — Marianne Wiggins
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective… — Gerhard Richter
The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour -… — Gerhard Richter
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake… — Marshall McLuhan
Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in… — Marshall McLuhan
Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what… — Janet Fitch
Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art… — Edward T. Hall
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. — Susie Orbach
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim. — Susie Orbach
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one. — Rowan Atkinson
Having a visual element to your band is a good thing. — Billy Gibbons
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction. — Billy Collins

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