Quotes About Visual

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

The burning hillsides seemed to make the relentless daylight of Jamaica even sharper and more dazzling, and the visual effect of flames spreading in all directions at night was like nothing anybody had ever seen before, as if the combined anger and desperation of three hundred years had been unleashed on the hills. The white people, it seemed, had been magically dispelled.

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Why talk when you can paint?

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.