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Quotes About Visual

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
~ Fiona Shaw
To see sad sights moves more than hear them told.
~ William Shakespeare
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
~ William Wordsworth
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
~ Yahoo Serious
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
~ Yann Martel
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
~ Yann Martel
For metaphor, we may suggest, is not simply a matter of what appears on the printed page or in, for example, the work of visual art; it is rather the bodying-forth [stet] of sets of correspondences of which, in some sense, we have all, in specific interpretative communities, been aware in what we might define as a liminal way, hovering somewhere around the threshold of articulation.
~ David Punter
Any picture could be employed either as (1) a pictograph or logogram or (2) a phonetic symbol. A sailboat image might mean "boat" or "to sail"—or it might simply contribute certain consonant sounds to help spell a different word. In hieroglyphics, an owl and a reed together meant "there," not "an owl and a reed." Read phonetically, the two pictures approximated the sound of the Egyptian word for "there.
~ David Sacks
Before they read words, children are reading pictures.
~ David Wiesner
Surrealism sought to maintain its autonomy and the right to continue its own particular investigations into ways of changing consciousness, the role of the unconscious within the social body, and the current state of language both visual and verbal.
~ DAWN ADES
How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.
~ Kermit the Frog
A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.
~ Debasish Mridha
Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
and June burst over the mountain. It smelled good, tasted good, and was gentle to the eyes.
~ Jean Craighead George
O can't you see it, O can't you see it,Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon… When the sun goes down.
~ Jean Toomer
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
Photography is truth.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
I'm not a particularly verbose person. I think that's why I like taking pictures... they speak for themselves.
~ Jeb Dickerson
For teaching to be effective, you must be heard, and many children with autism hear better with a picture.
~ Ellen Notbohm
It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
~ Allen Klein
The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.
~ Paul Watson
You would think that the weapons of a king and queen were perhaps their armies or centuries of tradition but what they have is the power of the media. The visual is almost more important than words because they don't have that many opportunities to speak.
~ Lucy Worsley
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
~ Vera Wang
I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was.
~ Joe Sacco