Visuals Quotes - Page 38

• Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.

  Janet Fitch

  Writing, Light, Media

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• Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

  Edward T. Hall

  Art, Men, Doe

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• Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

  Susie Orbach

  Boys, Men, Age

  "Body uniformity? Don't do it, guys" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2010.

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• Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

  Susie Orbach

  People, Culture, Landscape

  "Fat is a prejudice issue" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Comedian

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• Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

  Billy Gibbons

  Band, Elements, Good Things

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• Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

  Billy Collins

  Voice, Perfect, Radio

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• When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found this plausible. But now it's pretty clear that he's set out to control the visual history of the twentieth century.

  Philip Jones Griffiths

  Home, Bills, Digital

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• To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.

  Frank Horvat

  Photography, Art, Haiku

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• A lot of people in the art world hate to use the word "Photoshop", like it's cheating or easy or something. I say bollocks to that - for me, it's my tool, my paintbrush if you like, and lets me create my own visual language.

  Idris Khan

  Cheating, Art, Hate

  "'A lot of art people hate Photoshop... bollocks to that'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2007.

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• Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.

  Max Kozloff

  Memories, Objectivity, Perception

  Max Kozloff (1979). “Photography & Fascination: Essays”

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• Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.

  Vik Muniz

  People, Information, Illusion

  Vik Muniz, Charles Stainback, Mark Alice Durant (1998). “Vik Muniz: seeing is believing”

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• The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.

  Craig Owens

  Reality, Order, Appearance

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• [My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that life - that photography could deliver you that life.

  Max Pam

  Photography, Teacher, Book

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• It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number of levels - obviously visual aesthetics, but also content and narrative in terms of the bigger picture. When document and metaphor come together.

  Paolo Pellegrin

  Numbers, Feelings, Together

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• Racism is a visual pathology.

  Adrian Piper

  Racism, Pathology

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• Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job it is to document what's going down, most of us go out in the world expecting to give form to the magazine, or to newspaper editor's ideas, using what's become over the years a pretty standardized visual language. So we search for what is instantly recognizable, supportive of the text, easiest to digest, or most marketable - more mundane realities be damned.

  Eugene Richards

  Jobs, Real, Editors

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• The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point of high visual drama, is now possible to achieve at any time. One's photographs, years later, may be retroactively rephotographed by repositioning the photographer or the subject of the photograph, or by adding elements that were never there before but now are made to exist concurrently in a newly elastic sense of space and time.

  Fred Ritchin

  Photography, Drama, Years

  Fred Ritchin (1990). “In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world”

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• Generally, the imagery and the text go hand in hand. It's much easier when the text comes first, but sometimes I need visual stimulation in order to find the words. I get an idea of what I want when I begin to shoot, and the text is usually the last thing to be resolved. I tend to leave the text open, and I refine the words up to the last minute. As for the image, I can resolve that and get that done fairly quickly.

  Lorna Simpson

  Order, Ideas, Hands

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• The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Fighting, Order, Organization

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• Simplicity is all. Simple logic, simple arguments, simple visual images. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument. There's nothing long-winded about 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Simple, Long, Simplicity

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• What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director.

  Andy Serkis

  Integrity, Character, Emotional

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• Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain.

  Peter Gabriel

  Spiritual, Art, Soul

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• What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.

  William J. Mitchell

  Evil, Historical, Needs

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• I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.

  Lalo Schifrin

  School, Writing, Thinking

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