Visuals Quotes

• Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

  Orson Welles

  Fashion, Successful, Unique

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• Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

  Walt Disney

  Disney Animation, People, Age

  "COSI exhibit explores world of cartoons". The Review, August 2, 2007.

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• I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Google, Brain

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• Pay attention to your visual themes.

  Andrew Mayne

  Attention, Pay, Theme

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• Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.

  Wes Anderson

  Interesting, Mind, Stories

  "Wes Anderson Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM, His Next Film, Doing Another Stop-Motion Movie and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.

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• Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Literature, Able, Scene

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• Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Eye, Film Directing, People

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

  Eva Green

  Drama, School, Thinking

  Interview With Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

  Dave Gahan

  Love, Music, Song

  "Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan gets spiritual". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

  Daphne Zuniga

  Art, Imagination, Filling In

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• You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

  Steven Bochco

  Giving, Directors, Blueprints

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• I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

  J Allard

  Running, Real, Worry

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• VR is a very intense visual experience and having the most powerful PC is the only way to deliver certain experiences.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Powerful, Way, Intense

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

  Peter Travers

  Magic, Vivid, Pixar

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• I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?

  Storm Thorgerson

  Photography, Art, Real

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• There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives.

  Francoise Mouly

  Narrative, Comic, Intertwined

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language.

  Philip K. Dick

  Weed, Beer, Wind

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• Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.

  Michael Shermer

  Religious, Knowing, Tolerance

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• You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Writing, Eye, Ideas

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• The type of adverts to be found on television and in glossy magazines are visually designed to have a power over the mind before they can even be questioned. The dark side of my work, primarily concerns the internal mechanisms of visual imagery and how these mechanisms address the mind.

  Mat Collishaw

  Dark, Mind, Magazines

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• What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.

  Edward Tufte

  Simple, Giving, Design

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• Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...

  GZA

  Design, Habitual

  "Song: Reunited (Wu-Tang Forever)". March 30, 1998.

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• Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

  Edward Tufte

  Thinking, Design, Made

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• It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.

  Michael Almereyda

  Meaningful, Strong, Loss

  "Production Report: 'Anomaly,' 'I Believe in America,' 'In A Dark Place…,' 'Jam,' 'Tonight at Noon'" by Jason Guerrasio, www.indiewire.com. October 4, 2005.

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