Essentials Quote by Marie Calloway

Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing.

— Michael Salu

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

— Bill Viola

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

— Paul Virilio

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

— Tibor Kalman

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be…

— Marjane Satrapi

Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts.

— Paul Virilio

I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble…

— Patricia MacLachlan

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need…

— Anonymous

Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine…

— Robert Crumb

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

— Quentin Blake

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought…

— Sam Abell