Visual Quotes
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.
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I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
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At that time the African American community was not a large reading community. They learned from observation and participation. So we had a lot of visuals that they could identify with. Photographs and short captions, as opposed to long, drawn-out essays and editorials. They were visual interpretations of the conditions people lived in. Inner cities, poor communities. Combined with revolutionary imagery. The people saw themselves in the artwork. They became the heroes. They could see their uncles in it. They could see their fathers or their brothers and sisters in the art.
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Men are visual creatures.
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Guys are so visual.
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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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A lot of the images in my work are a kind of visual diary of places I've been, what I've seen, heard, smelt.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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We have a fine arts visual classroom set up specifically for the arts as far as drawing and painting, ... We also have a fine arts music classroom set up for piano and music. Those were two things that, prior to this fall, we really didn't have in place at the college.
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I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.
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My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.
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For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.
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When I was in the first years of university, I fell in more with the visual arts crowd because it was more interesting than where music was.
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With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
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Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.
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Our appearance is a powerful communication tool, sending messages to every sighted person. Everyone is highly influenced by the visual impression of a person they are meeting for the first time.
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One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.
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I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.
