Visual Quotes

620 quotes by 523 authors

Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing… — Leonard Maltin
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality… — Roald Hoffmann
An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams. — Anna Held
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and… — Galen
I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring. — Tim Hetherington
The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I… — William Klein
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression — Richard Diebenkorn
Hey, I wasnâ€™t a weirdo. I was in the audio-visual club. — D'arcy Wretzky
Two respondents described dreams which they had related to the procedure. Both described dreams of vomiting fetuses along with a sense of horror ... In… — Warren Hern
Let's find visual excitement in what nature has to offer. — Toni Onley
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into… — Henry Flynt
Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and… — Robert Hewison
These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think… — Ralph Steiner
The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices. — Michel de Certeau
After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal… — Harry Seidler
The human face is the subtle yet visual autobiography of each person, — John O'Donohue
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to… — Ikue Mori
Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design,… — Jeffrey Zeldman
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and… — Robert Genn
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image. — Roy H. Williams

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