Visuals Quotes - Page 27

• 'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Character, Thinking, Elysium

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• I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Artist, Thinking, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My favourite stuff is visual, and I always want to work with visual artwork. I think it depends on the person, but for me, photographs of an image of something interesting or inspiring is worth a lot more than words to me. I think every concept I've come up with and turned into films or that will be hopefully become a film comes from images first.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Interesting, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Trying, Looks

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• I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

  Colm Toibin

  Strong, Imagination

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• I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moving, Air, Looks

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.1033, D. H. Lawrence

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• When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lonely, Moving, Boys

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jan 01, 2013

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• The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Spiritual, Reading, Eye

  Tavis Smiley interview, PBS, June 28, 2005.

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• Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.

  Thomas Hardy

  Ideas, Color, Intuition

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• PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

  Edward Tufte

  Style, Cartoon, Tools

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• The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Wall, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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• A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

  Andy Warhol

  Mean, Diaries, Photographer

  Andy Warhol, William V. Ganis, Neil Baldwin, George Segal Gallery (Montclair, N.J.) (2009). “Andy Warhol: through a glass starkly : Sept. 8-Dec. 12, 2009 [exhibition catalog]”

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• He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.

  Dodie Smith

  Father, Doe, Littles

  Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.123, Random House

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• I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Breathing, Euphoria

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• 6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Events, Duration

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.190, Routledge

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• Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Crafts, Language, Typography

  "15 Free Fonts That Harken Back To Vintage Typography" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2014.

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• No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

  Simon R. Green

  Likes, Defining, Losing

  Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.93, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• (True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently the visual translation.

  Diane Duane

  Color, Names, White

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• Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame

  Allen Ginsberg

  Intelligent, Jumping, Space

  Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”

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• There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Eye, Dark

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.66, Vintage

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• Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Fall, Reading, Rome

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”, p.341, Random House

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• Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.

  Naomi Wolf

  Hurt, Self Esteem, Teaching

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Stress, Tunnels, Vision

  Malcolm Gladwell (2006). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Father, Eye

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• Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is under construction," he snarled as soon as we'd carried our bags inside. "The elevator has key card access, and I've hacked into the surveillance cameras from every system on the block," Abby argued. "We have a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual." "Excellent." Townsend dropped his bag. "Now the circle can see us from every angle." "Don't mind Agent Townsend, girls," Abby told us. "He's a glass-half-empty kind of spy." "Also known as the good kind," he countered. Abby huffed.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Block, Surveillance Cameras

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