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Quotes About Visual

Of course Moana, being a visual account of events in the daily life of a Polynesian youth and his family, has documentary value.
~ John Grierson
Embrace clichés, then rejuvenate them. Assemble all the visual ones associated with your brief then look at ways of reusing them, and reconnecting to their essence with new vigour.
~ John Ingledew
The tabular form of viewing data is by no means rocket science, but it is a rare sort of visual magic that always works.
~ John Maeda
My braid was silver-black where his is like winter butter, but his eyes are gray as mine and as full of starlight.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It was about three feet wide and stippled
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera. Suddenly, if you are working a lot, it takes over and then you see meaning in everything. You don't have to push for it. That's what I mean by the visual life. Very rare."1
~ Elizabeth Partridge
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
~ Arthur Erickson
Normally, the mind involuntarily superimposes a sense of solidity on our perceptions of visual objects, even though the eyes are not designed to detect this tactile characteristic.
~ B. Alan Wallace
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
~ B. J. Novak
When you shoot at slow-motion, or a high frame rate, it makes it really difficult to rack focus.
~ Matt Duffer
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
~ Elliott Erwitt
People do not read first. First and foremost, they see color. Then they see numbers, then shape, and then, if you still have their attention and they understand what you put in front of them, then they will read.
~ Debbie Millman
Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.
~ Christopher Golden
I think I work much the same way I always have. I'm trying to interpret something emotionally visually. I'm reading the brief or article, or listening to the music, and deciding where that sends me, and what would it look like.
~ David Carson
I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.
~ Jane Lindskold
I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy.
~ Denny Hamlin
No one reads anything. They just look at images.
~ Jonathan Anderson
Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.
~ Chris Ware
The real power of comics is writing as you draw.
~ Chris Ware
Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible.
~ John Knoll
I feel like you could watch 'Grand Budapest' without sound, and it would still be funny.
~ Wyatt Cenac
Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.
~ Ridley Scott
I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.
~ Gillian Flynn
I think the graphic novel form works, in practice, a lot differently from watching a movie. You can put it down and pick it back up whenever you want - something you can't do in a theater.
~ Travis Beacham