Visual Quotes

620 quotes by 523 authors

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes. — Roy H. Williams
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the… — Robert Bringhurst
In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read,… — Robert Bringhurst
A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to… — Paul Rotha
Our eyes see very little and very badly â€“ so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope...now… — Dziga Vertov
Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of… — Jeff Mathews
The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that… — Brian Reynolds Myers
Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be… — Ernest L. Boyer
Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures… — Otto Neurath
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and… — Tracy K. Smith
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its… — Michel Chion
What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. — Rian Hughes
I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen. — Judd Apatow
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories. — Joshua Foer
What is it about the English countryside â€” why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so? — Dodie Smith
In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or… — David Abram
God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name.… — Philip Graham Ryken
A lot of times I have the song inside of me and I have to fight to get it out. I'm a very visual person,… — Zola Jesus
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a… — Will Burtin

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