Visuals Quotes

526 quotes by 439 authors

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
Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting, no exciting visuals or amplification,… — Tim Hughes
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image. — Roy H. Williams
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

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