Visual Quotes - page 3

The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cézanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity. (Clement Greenberg)
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through. View quote
Dan Rice
I like living, breathing better than working... my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria. View quote
Marcel Duchamp
I was interested in ideas - not merely in visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind. View quote
Marcel Duchamp
My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls. View quote
Günter Brus
Reading in the third millennium B. C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense. View quote
Julian Jaynes
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in. View quote
Larry Wall
I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters. View quote
Margaret Weis
I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals. View quote
Marlee Matlin
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself. View quote
Helen Fisher
I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it. (Brian Jacques)
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. View quote
Robert Bringhurst
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that ‘language' themselves (just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs). Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way. View quote
Howard S. Becker
For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters. View quote
James Wan
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will. View quote
Robert Doisneau
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. View quote
Arnold Newman
I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things. View quote
Dan Reynolds
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. View quote
Paul Rand
I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action. View quote
Richard Thompson
Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film. (Alan Rudolph)
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't. View quote
Aaron Huey
It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. View quote
Allen Klein
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. View quote
Annie Parisse
I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that. View quote
Ade Edmondson