Quotes About Visual

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

I went to film school, trained as a director, have made a lot of movies, and taken a lot of photographs, so I tend to envision things spatially. As I'm working, I need to have a map of the space. I need to know what's happening in all corners simultaneously.

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what's acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to bring to film.

In the bit of painting that I've done, I'm interested in colour and texture. I'm very interested in transparency.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.

I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

...visual truth lies in the structure of light.

Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story

A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face.

the way a drop of blue paint intensified whiteness.

Funny, Dad, but my generation is visual. We don't tell people what other people are doing. We show what we're doing. We put up photos.

En su siguiente (o primera) visita a un Starbucks, a una tienda Apple, a una oficina de FedEx o a una empresa similar, rétese a descubrir cómo interactúan los seis elementos de la matriz visual: color, forma, escala, orden, detalle e información.

The ecstasy of creation is when, as an artist, you are one with and totally absorbed in the act. It is the same experience whether it is the act of painting, making music, or writing. The experience really obliterates all other considerations at that moment. The act of re-creating the visual experience o the models in front of me is absolutely absorbing, leaving no room for extraneous thoughts, sexual or otherwise. My routine is my way of controlling hysteria.

One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.