"Is the scene always visual? It can be……" — Roland Barthes

More Aural Quotes

This quote is filed under Aural Quotes, one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words… — Margaret Atwood
• The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of… — David Foster Wallace
• The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of… — Brian Reynolds Myers
• Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of… — Allen Ginsberg
• Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold… — Wesley Morris
• I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition. — Mike Nichols
• But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple. — Leo Ornstein
• Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort. — Leila Josefowicz
• Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. — Rita Dove
• Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments.… — Brian Eno
• I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email,… — Will Self
• Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a… — Marion Zimmer Bradley

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