Quotes About Visual

I haven't seen 'The Exorcist,' but I've seen a lot of pictures of the girl in it. So now I don't actually want to see it. She scares me so much. I don't know what it is, but even though it's quite old now, it still has the best and scariest make-up I've ever seen in my life.

Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

I paint with shapes.

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

I like to paint pictures with words, 'cause I can't draw for anything.

When I was asked to compose a score for... 'Palo Alto,' I first thought to myself, 'What is the house that these characters would want to live in?' I wanted to paint a picture and color scheme that I could work around. I gently apply different daubs to see what fits to match the color I have in mind with these characters.

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

All my album artwork is body painting.

I love film - it's like painting.

I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

Now the look of the book dictates the sale. In my day you could still buy a good cookbook in paperback with no pictures at all. I doubt if that would sell today. But those books were much used: they lived in the kitchen and got splattered with custard and gravy.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

Hanisch, der mehr Bilder

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