Quotes About Visual

I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.

In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

Painting is silent poetry.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.