Art Quote by Victor Burgin

“Mind thinks in images but, to communicate with another, must transform image into thought and then thought into language. That march, from image to…

— Irvin D. Yalom

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those,…

— Chris Hondros

The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures…

— Asger Jorn

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph…

— Susan Sontag

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Language is not unlike art in that words contain values of lights and darks, hues and tonalities, texture and sensuality. Words can paint complex…

— Elisa Lorello

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that…

— Godfrey Reggio

Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural…

— Marjane Satrapi

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with…

— Camille Paglia

Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a…

— Siri Hustvedt

The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the…

— William J. Mitchell

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all…

— Jeanette Winterson