Quotes About Interpretation

I feel like visual art, the culinary arts, the theatrical arts - the medium changes, the tools that you use to tell whatever the story changes, but you're still all telling stories.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

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.

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

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

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

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

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

I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what they're reading. They just don't. They follow the events and get the resonance with the language, but they have only a vague, general idea of what the characters look like.

I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.

I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.

How do you visualize something you've never seen and just imagined, through someone you love very much?

If you read a book about school - someone else's book - you always translate it into your own school experiences. It's describing the student: he's bewildered and lost in a large crowd in a university classroom. You'll visualize that from your own experiences. So, everything you know is what you're really writing.

It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.

The first thing I do with any script is read it and try to visualize if I can play the character - if I can feel what the character's feeling.

I visualize songs like a little movie scene and I try to almost talk through the scene. What emotions am I trying to get across?

I've always been super into photography and the visuals that support my music.

I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.

I don't think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science.

For me, I'm not a great wordsmith, and so maybe from lack of great dialogue writing, I thought it's easier and better to express a story through visuals.

I came from a background of photography so I look at details and visuals, and I see things in pictures or signs.

When I hear a song, I close my eyes and see a lot of stuff happen, and I love making those visuals come to life. It's always been a passion.