Quotes About Perception

I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading.

You or I never buy an Intel product explicitly, and yet their sonic logo is far better known and more powerful than its visual equivalent. It's probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

You are either visual or you're not.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

If you create a visual that actually captures the imagination, that's not real. It will look real, and that will spread at such lightning speed that by the time it's found out, it has already done its damage. It's a very, very scary time that we're living in. I say it's an age of absurdity.

I'm a visual learner, so with hand-eye coordination, I was a natural.

Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.

The black community has always complained about abuse from cops. It's nothing new. But now, more people are seeing visual examples of what they've been complaining about. That's one thing that has changed over time.

Animals see a video of the world. If an animal were only to see still images, how would its vision develop? Neuroscientists have run experiments in cats in a dark environment with a strobe so it can only see still images - and those cats' visual systems actually underdevelop. So motion is important, but what is the algorithm?

I'm a visual person, a conceptual person.

When it comes to vibrato, a lot of people look at their hands when they do it. Which is pretty much of no use. Because vibrato is one of those things you have to hear. There are some guitar things where the visual is really useful, like seeing chord shapes or scale patterns. But vibrato isn't one of those things.

I don't like the lip-syncing-type videos. I like for people to listen to the words and see the visual.

Art is really more musical than it is visual.

John Cage is someone I got into as a visual artist, before I even knew his music. I don't think a lot of people even know that he does visual art.

The average individual lives in a high impact, complex, visual environment.

I think of colour sense as the visual equivalent of perfect pitch. Some people can just reach into a pile of swatches and say that looks nice with that.

I can't think of how many meetings I've sat through where people have explained that language has become less important because we now live in a visual age.

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.