Quotes About Visual

Hence at any moment only part of the visual elements of a scene is available for conscious perception.

Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s various researchers contacted Pribram and told him they had uncovered evidence that the visual system worked as a kind of frequency analyzer. Since frequency is a measure of the number of oscillations a wave undergoes per second, this strongly suggested that the brain might be functioning as a hologram does.

I've always said that the actor is only an element of the image, rarely the most important. The actor is important with his dialogue, with the landscape, with a gesture but the actor in himself is nothing.

Sexual crimes are very visual. Sadists want to see the pain they are inflicting upon their victim.

It looked like a Roman candle to me.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.

Art is a visual language, and Christians have a responsibility to learn that language.

Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours.Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

People of a television culture need "plain language" both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some circumstances by law. The Gettysburg Address would probably have been largely incomprehensible to a 1985 audience.

In a print-culture, we are apt to say of people who are not intelligent that we must "draw them pictures" so that they may understand. Intelligence implies that one can dwell comfortably without pictures, in a field of concepts and generalizations.

For on television, discourse is conducted largely through visual imagery, which is to say that television gives us a conversation in images, not words. The emergence of the image-manager in the political arena and the concomitant decline of the speech writer attest to the fact that television demands a different kind of content from other media. You cannot do political philosophy on television. Its form works against the content.

It is in the nature of the medium that it must suppress the content of ideas in order to accommodate the requirements of visual interest;

described as indexical. What he meant was an image made by the physical being of the object, not a line drawing.

In my history books I have already had my say in clear language and discursive meaning about community. Now what history means to me in images is freedom from coherence, clarity, and collective representation. My images carry their own visual meaning, which may or may not explicate history usefully or unequivocally. For me now, image works as particularity, not as generalization. That is how art school changed my thinking about history and how visual art set me free.

they looked 'like a well-lit-up street', nine miles long.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Real-world images have redundant information. Tree bark has repeating patterns with small variations.

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

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