Visual Quotes

620 quotes by 523 authors

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike… — Helena Christensen
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the… — Ralph Gibson
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a… — Berenice Abbott
Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as… — Ansel Adams
Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision,… — John Szarkowski
They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection. — John Szarkowski
You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business. — Elliott Erwitt
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly,… — Marcel Duchamp
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love,… — Camille Paglia
The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing. — Michele Soavi
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist - moving an audience through a movie ... making them think the way you want them to think, painting… — Gordon Willis
While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience. — Jet Li
Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had… — Joyce Tenneson
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices… — Barbara Kruger
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. — Barbara Kruger
I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles… — Carolee Schneemann
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And… — Jared Leto
I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what… — Tom Cruise
With all of the visual distraction constantly inundating us in the form of our devices and screens, I really derive a great deal of pleasure… — Nick Offerman

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