Consuming Quote by Dan Winters

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume…

— Anne Truitt

The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words.…

— Marshall McLuhan

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

— David LaChapelle

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or…

— Rebecca Solnit

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language…

— Terence McKenna

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead…

— Edward Weston

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a…

— Conrad Hall

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in…

— Adrienne Rich

There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As…

— Philip K. Dick

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts,…

— Chris Ware

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited…

— Frank Herbert