Visuals Quotes - Page 33

• I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.

  George Pendle

  Airports, Design, Roles

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.

  David Byrne

  Art, Groups, Doe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.

  ASAP Ferg

  Fashion, Art, Grace

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.

  Antoni Tapies

  Real, Lying, Expression

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• No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, People, Facts

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• In visual art it's better once to see, than one hundred times to hear.

  Igor Babailov

  Art, Knowledge, Hundred

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• You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

  Robert Gober

  Growing Up, Religion, Trying

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• I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.

  Robert Gober

  Thinking, Childhood, Catholic

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• MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the visual aspect of the collection excites me most. For designers, we care about the photographs much more than a Ferrari.

  Philip Treacy

  Ferrari, Collaboration, Campaigns

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• I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had never paid any attention to. And as you photograph, one of the benefits is that the world becomes a much richer, juicier, visual place. Sometimes it is almost unbearable — it is too interesting. And it isn’t always just the photos you take that matters. It is looking at the world and seeing things that you never photograph that could be photographs if you had the energy to keep taking pictures every second of your life.

  Saul Leiter

  Photography, Thinking, Interesting

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• The Hulk was a unique character because of his strength and power. He doesn't have a costume like Spiderman or like Superman - The Hulk is more visual. His passion and his strength, that is what separates him from anything else.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Passion, Character, Unique

  "Lou Ferrigno talks playing The Hulk, meeting Wonder Woman, training the King of Pop" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. anuary 24, 2013.

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• Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the photographs turn out to be boring and predictable. So I think thats why, a long time ago, I consciously tried to let go of artists angst, and instead just hope for the best and enjoy it. I love the journey as much as the destination. If I wasnt a photographer, Id still be a traveler.

  Michael Kenna

  Letting Go, Artist, Journey

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• In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.

  Michael Kenna

  Memories, Past, Fire

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• The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.

  Ben Nicholson

  Musical, Painting, Kind

  Peter Khoroche, Ben Nicholson (2002). “Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs”, Lund Humphries Publishers

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• Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large numbers. ... he is only minimally interested in the proper intellectual significance of images and objects. Such people are not really intellectuals, but visuals ... A visual is more interested in style than in content ... A visual does not feel a rioting crowd being machine-gunned by the police, he simply sees a brilliant news photograph.

  John Fowles

  War, Numbers, People

  "The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas". Book by John Fowles, 1964.

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• Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp.

  Roger Ebert

  Fall, Color, Entertainment

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.241, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.

  J. J. Abrams

  Skills, People, Style

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

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• By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Character, People

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• Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

  Lady Gaga

  Thinking, Musician, Culture

  "Women in Music: Lady Gaga". Interview with Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. June 12, 2009.

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• The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I've always loved that idea of windmills - your mind aimlessly spinning.

  Tim Burton

  Beautiful, Strong, Real

  "Tim Burton - part four". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2000.

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• As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

  Igor Babailov

  Art, Wind, Demand

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• Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Expression, Creative

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• As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.

  Ken Danby

  Artist, Vision, Elements

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• What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

  Naum Gabo

  Art, Philosophy, Thinking

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• What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

  A. Y. Jackson

  War, Artist, Forever

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