Visual Quotes

620 quotes by 523 authors

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. — Douglas Coupland
I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember. — Brandon Boyd
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to… — Tracy Letts
Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process.… — Shakira
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. — John Irving
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla… — Alison Jackson
We live in a visual world now. — Diogo Morgado
Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not… — Robert Wilson
I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that… — Robert Wilson
I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is… — Lawrence Weschler
Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally… — Henry Rollins
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I… — F. Sionil Jose
I just dreamed about living in Paris and being French. I always loved the visual arts, film and theatre, and I hoped to be involved… — Maureen Chiquet
In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago. — Tim Crouch
If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention… — Rosemary Mahoney
Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it… — Vik Muniz
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have… — Ann Voskamp
The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual… — Daryl Hall
I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision… — Josh Young
After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford… — David Twohy

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523 authors contributed a total of 620 Visual Quotes, led by these top contributors: