Visuals Quotes - Page 24

• One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is "out there" in the same way that a movie camera would.

  David Eagleman

  Mistake, Believe, Giving

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.25, Canongate Books

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• The brain "fills in" the missing information from the blind spot. Notice what you see in the location of the dot when it's in your blind spot. When the dot disappears, you do not perceive a hole of whiteness or blackness in its place; instead your brain invents a patch of the background pattern. Your brain, with no information from that particular spot in visual space, fills in with the patterns around it. You're not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

  David Eagleman

  Blind Spots, Space, Missing

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• Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

  David Eagleman

  Jobs, Machines, World

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.45, Canongate Books

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• I don't think there is any scientific evidence about the question of whether we think only in language or not. But introspection indicates pretty clearly that we don't think in language necessarily. We also think in visual images, we think in terms of situations and events, and so on, and many times we can't even express in words what the content of our thinking is. And even if we are able to express it in words, it is a common experience to say something and then to recognize that it is not what we meant, that it is something else.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Common Experience, Able

  Source: chomsky.info

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• One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual space. We have a whole mass of complex ways of understanding what is the nature of visual space. A proper part of psychology ought to be, and in recent years has been, an effort to try to discover the principles of how we organize visual space. I would say that the same is true of every domain of psychology, of human studies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Space, Effort

  Source: chomsky.info

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• With the films, it starts off with certain coordinates in the world and seeing what happens. What happens if you place yourself at an oil refinery in the Middle East? What happens if you place yourself in the White House Cabinet Room? What happens if you place yourself with Brad Pitt on the set of a film? And so on. And no matter what I capture, there is a sense of déjà vu to it, like you might have come across this visual before.

  Sarah Morris

  Oil, White, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation and illiteracy.

  Rhymefest

  Artist, Musical, Incentives

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes out of some sense of longing. It could be called dissatisfaction; it could be called distance. There are many kinds of wanting to get closer to something else, whether that is an idea, a body, a place. Longing is also one of the conditions people approach reading, visual art, or music with - it's to satisfy that sense of longing. It's part of my job, on some level, to grapple with that notion.

  Tom Burr

  Art, Jobs, Distance

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as being an instrument, the whole body as being a visual instrument. That sort of gave way a little bit with Cartesian­ - the "Cogito ergo sum" argument. It's not, "I think therefore I exist." It's, "I feel therefore I think therefore I exist."

  Vik Muniz

  Eye, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Strangely enough, for me, Instagram has been a creatively freeing and inspiring format lately. I have been so very resistant to nearly all forms of media, yet finally this made it into my atmosphere, and in discovering this I have been propelled into some movement and new ideas. Real life images, curated images, even the visual diarrhea are incredible fertilization for movement in some direction or another.

  Guinevere Van Seenus

  Real, Media, Ideas

  "The Secrets of Guinevere Van Seenus". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2016.

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• I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely on to tell a scene or create the suspense that I need and create the emotion of a scene or a sequence.

  James Wan

  Cameras, Needs, Suspense

  Source: collider.com

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• When I shut off the verbal, I like to escape into the visual.

  Elaine Equi

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

  Bjork

  Writing, Artist, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

  David Bowie

  Religious, Buddhist, Powerful

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• I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

  David Bowie

  Art, Way, Painting

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• I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

  David Bowie

  Song, Expression, Wish

  "David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters - a classic interview". Interview with Charles Shaar Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.

  William S. Burroughs

  Art, Growing Up, Children

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

  William S. Burroughs

  Art, Writing, Pages

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.

  Sophia Bush

  Photography, Games, Perspective

  Interview with Matt Wiggins, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.

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• I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

  Lee Child

  Book, Thinking, Obvious

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• When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

  John Cleese

  Teenage, Writing, Kids

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• In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Perception

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• You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

  Alice Cooper

  Albums, Done, Records

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

  Justin Cronin

  Moving, Writing, Use

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• What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

  Mos Def

  Use, Landscape, Language

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