Quotes About Visual

am inclined to believe it to have been the most salutary, the most practical piece of training which my Father ever gave me. It forced me to observe sharply and clearly, to form visual impressions, to retain them in the brain, and to clothe them in punctilious and accurate language.

A picture is worth a thousand words— unless the picture is distorted.

A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures?

A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

A photograph is usually looked at — seldom looked into.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

the memory of images, for example, the memory of a scene that we perceive in visual and auditory terms—is achieved by converting explicit images into a "neural code" that will later allow, by working in reverse, a more or less complete reconstruction in the process of image recall.

Being called a dance photographer makes me bristle. You might say that dance is my landscape. The root of my interest is movement or, rather, how movement can be interpreted photographically, and dance provides a perfect opportunity for this.

Print publications have to be as luxurious an experience as possible. You have to feel it coming off the page. You have to see photographs and pieces that you couldn't possibly see anywhere else.

Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.

'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

Your eyes are very important as a professional footballer.

I do come alive in front of a camera. The first video I ever made was a formative moment for me.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone.

I like the camera to be still and not very shaky and have everything happen within the frame.