Quotes About Visual

Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

The medium of film is really wonderful because it can behave in the same way as collage and painting; it can be layered and non-literal.

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

Comics have always been storyboards.

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

Comics have always helped people to read. A lot of people learned to read by reading the comics. And it's our livelihood, after all. If people don't know how to read, they're not reading our comics.

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Whenever I watch a movie I like to imagine what sort of music I might compose for a scene, to create a particular kind of atmosphere, because when I see something I hear something.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

In the previous chapter we discussed how a figure of speech fails when images are too farfetched or mixed, or when one image cancels out the other. The same principle applies to physical descriptions.

Movies and television may be influencing writers to write more visually, using immediate scenes with specific points of view to put their stories across. But fiction can always accomplish something that visual media will never be able to match. ... One of the great gifts of literature is that it allows for the expression of unexpressed thoughts: interior monologue.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

In this fleeting life, there is nothing stronger than a visual idea or moment stopped in time forever. And nothing does this better than a black-and-white photograph.

Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were hand drawn. Some were black-and-white, but most were in full color, everything from character sketches to splash panels to full pages, done in a style that wasn't quite manga, wasn't quite comic book.

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.