Quotes About Visual

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

A picture can say a thousand words but maybe not the correct ones.

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body.

I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.

Nowadays you don't get to see composition in a movie because nobody ever keeps the camera still long enough to see it. Actors don't have the thrill and the power of working with space.

I find psychological thrillers interesting both dramatically and visually.

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.

When you walk around the property, everything ties up together and looks good. That is the main goal as a designer.

I believe that photographs actually rob all of us of our memory.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!

My [art]work attempts to recapture a history never written or narrated visually before. I reaffirm my identity as a Mexica-Tejana and assert a new system of existence through visual manifestations of the oral history, myths, legends, and more of the borderlands.

Basketball is the MTV of sports.

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.