Quotes About Visual

It was a problem in comic books: drawing an invisible man.

Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the clearest green water and that when the fish swim to the top, as they are doing now, you are devilishly charming?

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

Websites should look good from the inside and out.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

Despite all ideological attempts to transcend the mode in clothes, it is the lust of the eye for change, the power of the eye to make instant associations, and its need to demand and to create and combine images that hold clothing to significant and delicate shifts of dynamic visual form.

Miss Petitfour loved the little pictures, each in its own serrated frame and each seeming to tell it's own little story.

The lenses of telescopes and cameras can no more cover the breadth and scale of the visual array than language can cover the breadth and simultaneity of internal experience.

I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture, everybody can understand it.

If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it.

I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited.

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

Your life has more blue in it than a James Cameron movie.

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.