Visuals Quotes - Page 19

• I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

  Lee Strobel

  Book, People, Realizing

  "Interview: Lee Strobel Makes Case for Faith ... Again". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. September 25, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

  James Laughlin

  Beautiful, Wall, Book

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Fiction, Narrative

  8 Copy quote

• I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.

  Tate Taylor

  Taken, Home, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Mother, Art, Strong

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. January 07, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

  Dar Williams

  Art, Funny Things, Musician

  4 Copy quote

• Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.

  John Walford

  Christian, Art, Confused

  5 Copy quote

• Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.

  John Walford

  Christian, Art, Lying

  4 Copy quote

• As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack of wholesomeness of form and content amidst the all-pervasive sensory overload.

  John Walford

  Art, Anorexia, Suffering

  4 Copy quote

• I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Writing, Language, Canvas

  5 Copy quote

• Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.

  Roland Barthes

  Falling In Love, Memories, Desire

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

  Lisa Kristine

  Photography, Language, Advantage

  7 Copy quote

• I'm never going to be one of those people who is good at organization. But I'm very visual. I have a catalog in my head of things I already own, so it's easy to shop and I always know exactly what I'm looking for.

  Alexa Chung

  Organization, People, Easy

  "Interview: Alexa Chung covers our spring fashion issue". Interview with Rachel LeWinter, www.timeout.com. April 21, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.

  Ian Hornak

  Organization, Space, Work Out

  7 Copy quote

• Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.

  Will Cotton

  Powerful, Smell, Stronger

  4 Copy quote

• I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Art, Thinking, Fans

  7 Copy quote

• Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being

  Helmut Gernsheim

  Art, Men, Ideas

  45 Copy quote

• My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

  Charles Gwathmey

  Art, Exposure, Visual Art

  "Modernist architect Charles Gwathmey dies", www.today.com. August 5, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.

  Bonnie Wright

  Drawing, Clay, Mold

  10 Copy quote

• By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

  Peter York

  Art, Class, Symbolism

  8 Copy quote

• I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.

  Black Francis

  Strong, Shy, Bags

  "Pixies Interview". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 6, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

  J. Carter Brown

  Art, Spirit, Kindred

  7 Copy quote

• When I hear music as a fan, I see fields. I see landscapes. I close my eyes and see an entire universe that that music and the voice, or the narrative, create. A music video-and any other kind of visual reference-is created by someone else.

  Michael Stipe

  Eye, Voice, Fans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.

  Michael Stipe

  Song, Powerful, Mtv

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and I turn him into my assistant. You could say I intervene, and I intervene in a very determining way in all the aspects that have to do with the visual construction of the film.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Fashion, Assistants, Way

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source