Aesthetic Quote by William S. Burroughs

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

— Douglas Coupland

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

— Ken Danby

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

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

— Paul Cezanne

Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can…

— Neil Farber

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

— Paul Virilio

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

— William Albert Allard

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

— Edgar Degas

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

— George Henry Lewes

The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a disadvantage, because…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti