Visual Quotes

620 quotes by 523 authors

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies.… — Peter McWilliams
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all. — Lars von Trier
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. — Eugenio Montale
To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy. — Hans Hofmann
The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis… — Lewis Mumford
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual… — Massimo Vignelli
The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions. — Diane Ackerman
All great art is a visual form of prayer. — Wendy Beckett
Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that… — Alec Baldwin
For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female… — Gloria Steinem
For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We… — Roger Waters
Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so… — Story Musgrave
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by… — Bridget Riley
I can't stop thinking about cutting myself up. Visual bruises can be covered with make-up, but down to the core, I'm all bruises. — Majandra Delfino
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than… — Raymond Loewy
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I… — Dorothea Lange
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to… — Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. — Amy Tan
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. — Arnold Newman

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