Quotes About Visual

Really, we're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on 'Instagram'.

I like when an image could be just one of several others which would create a story. That you can imagine who are those people or what would happen before, what's going to be next; I like when there's a past and a future that we can imagine when we see photos.

Instagram is amazing, and I enjoy sharing photos there. However, I don't think it is where my photos will go to live.

I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.

A picture is a fact.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.