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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• The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Unattainable, Photographer

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• As a collector, you will discover that surrounding yourself with art can enrich not only your visual experiences, but instill a sense of vitality to your life and uplift your soul.

  Ernest West Basden

  Uplifting, Art, Soul

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• Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

  William H. Gass

  Fiction, Becoming

  William H. Gass (2014). “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry”, p.87, New York Review of Books

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• An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.

  Betty Edwards

  Drawing, Ordinary, Different

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• I hope to do a visual for every 
single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

  FKA twigs

  Film, Bigs, Whole

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• The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.

  Bob Gill

  Thinking, Way, Visual Images

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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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• 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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• An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.

  Anna Held

  Dream, Memories, Real

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• All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

  Richard Diebenkorn

  People, Painting, Mood

  Richard Diebenkorn (1964). “Richard Diebenkorn: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., November 6 to December 31, 1964; the Jewish Museum, New York, January 13 to February 21, 1965; Pavilion Gallery, Newport Beach, California, March 14 to April 15, 1965”

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

  Roy H. Williams

  Artist, Hands, Tools

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• The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Photography, Communication, Reading

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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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• Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

  Steve McConnell

  Code Quality, Logical, Program

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• Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Smart, Choices, Design

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• You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better chance of holding the viewer. People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull. When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.

  David Ogilvy

  Fire, People, Attention

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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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• Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Art, Children, Drama

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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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• 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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• 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 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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