Quotes About Visual

Pictures, even beautifully drawn pictures, that do not properly relate to one another in a narrative sequence do not make good comics.

Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.

French neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene has found that the less accurate, "there or thereabouts" bits of math processing uses visual and spatial brain areas, whereas the exact stuff requires the same areas as language processing.2 So to some extent, being a words person and a numbers person are kind of the same thing.

Blue does not go with everything," Will told her. "It does not go with red, for instance." "I have a red and blue striped waistcoat," Henry interjected, reaching for the peas. "And if that isn't proof that those two colors should never be seen together under Heaven, I don't know what is.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool.

His ears made him look like a taxi cab with both doors open.

Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The veins stood out on her angry temples like wormcasts.

His eyes were the color of the scrim that forms on street puddles in January. A cold and dirty gray.

He tends to trust pictures more than he trusts words. Not because pictures cannot lie but because, once they leave the darkroom, they are fixed, immutable.

The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party.

The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.

I love movies where you can tell who's directed it even before the credits roll in, like Wes Anderson or Quentin Tarantino. People who make very stylized types of film.

A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely.

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can't be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they're still images rather than physical things.

Do I like how digital films look? Sometimes, but sometimes it looks flat, and ugly.

The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then there's the smell, and the noise is unbearable.

Beauty has undergone a similar process, thanks to advertisers. Evolution gave us a circuit that responds to good looks—call it the pleasure receptor for our visual cortex—and in our natural environment, it was useful to have. But take a person with one-in-a-million skin and bone structure, add professional makeup and retouching, and you're no longer looking at beauty in its natural form. You've got pharmaceutical-grade beauty, the cocaine of good looks.

When a Heptapod B sentence grew fairly sizable, its visual impact was remarkable. If I wasn't trying to decipher it, the writing looked like fanciful mantids drawn in a cursive style, all clinging to each other to form an Escheresque lattice, each slightly different in its stance. And the biggest sentences had an effect similar to that of psychedelic posters: sometimes eye-watering, sometimes hypnotic.