Quotes About Visual

A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.

A lot of things in films are cheated with the use of camera tricks, so while it may feel unnatural to do, when you look at the result, you realise that it is right.

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

I'm a planner, an organizer. I write things down because you can visually check them off and see progress. Writing things down is a lost art. I've got sticky notes all over my apartment.

It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

I just take inspiration from anything that visually stimulates me.

Making the 'Sulfur' video continued our quest to make a video different and visually stimulating.

For the most part, we've moved past the awkward-for-everyone period of food bloggers toting giant DSLR cameras and flash kits in restaurants, but that's been replaced by almost everyone armed with a phone stopping to immortalise their breakfast.

I want there to be hints of narrative everywhere in the image so that people can make up their own stories about them. But I don't want to have my own narrative and force it on to them.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.