Visual Quotes

620 quotes by 523 authors

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war. — Cornell Capa
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young… — Ilya Ehrenburg
Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal — William H. Gass
I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the… — James Cameron
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful… — Neal Stephenson
In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music… — Doug Aitken
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many.… — Umberto Eco
The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you… — Ric Ocasek
Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had… — Bernie Krause
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/femaleâ€¦In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked… — Laura Mulvey
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the… — Odilon Redon
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen...It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid...It's a strong name, very universal… — Freddie Mercury
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. — Julia Morgan
They establish contact with the subconscious of the consumer below the word level. They do this with visual symbols instead of words ... They communicate… — Rosser Reeves
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. — Yahoo Serious
The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of… — Chogyam Trungpa
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds — Marshall McLuhan
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and… — Shirley Hazzard
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which… — Robert Doisneau
Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the… — Karlheinz Stockhausen

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