Quotes About Visual

The purpose of art is delectation.

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.