Visual Quotes

620 quotes by 523 authors

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination. — Colm Toibin
I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life… — D. H. Lawrence
When I am lonely for boys itâ€™s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,… — Margaret Atwood
The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual… — Joyce Carol Oates
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and… — Thomas Hardy
PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation. — Edward Tufte
There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I… — Philip K. Dick
The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its… — Virginia Woolf
A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary. — Andy Warhol
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the… — Michael Shermer
He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside â€” why is the beauty so much… — Dodie Smith
I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is… — Marcel Duchamp
6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst
No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us — Simon R. Green
(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently… — Diane Duane
There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and… — Vladimir Nabokov
Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the… — Gary Shteyngart
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.… — Naomi Wolf
extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress. — Malcolm Gladwell

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