Visuals Quotes - Page 26

• I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

  Chuck Norris

  Motivational, Thinking, Fog

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• They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.

  Susan Orlean

  Book, People, Likes

  "Vapor" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 6, 2010.

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• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  Camille Paglia

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

  Camille Paglia

  Photography, Hollywood, Genius

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• Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Mind, Details

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• We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

  Steven Pinker

  Sound, Creatures, Fades

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• There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, World, Body

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• Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

  Paul Rand

  Communication, Technology, Views

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• But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

  Keanu Reeves

  Thinking, Talking, Watches

  "Actor Keanu Reeves". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Nice, Use, Done

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• The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Journey, Epic

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• I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

  Jerry Saltz

  Photography, Ideas, Everyday

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• When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

  Jerry Saltz

  People, Joy, Mind

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• Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Years, Style

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• I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Garden, Thinking

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• If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Two, Water

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• In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.

  Jerry Saltz

  Mean, Artist, America

  "Great Artists Steal". nymag.com. May 10, 2009.

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• New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.

  Jerry Saltz

  Queens, Ocean, Rivers

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• Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.

  Will Self

  Art, Fall, Character

  "Constellation of Genius, 1922: Modernism Year One by Kevin Jackson - review" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

  Shel Silverstein

  Humor, Comic, Commentary

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• The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Special, Important, Velcro

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• The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

  Shania Twain

  Reason, Sells

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

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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  Vera Wang

  Design, Technique, Skating

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• My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.

  Florence Welch

  Religious, Children, Drama

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• I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, Television, Metaphor

  "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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