Visuals Quotes - Page 7

• I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.

  Edward T. Hall

  Women, Eye, Differences

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• To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.

  Wilfrid Sellars

  Order, Color, Knowing

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• The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity.

  A. O. Scott

  Fun, Taken, Thinking

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• Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

  Saul Bass

  Simple, Essence, Trying

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• ...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.

  Dave Hickey

  Fun, Powerful, Issues

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• There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed in art. The first aids us in understanding the reasons of things; the second in seeing their forms. In science we try to trace phenomena back to their first causes, and to general laws and principles. In art we are absorbed in their immediate appearance, and we enjoy this appearance to the fullest extent in all its richness and variety. Here we are not concerned with the uniformity of laws but with the multiformity and diversity of intuitions.

  Ernst Cassirer

  Art, Science, Law

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• I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother and I moved around a lot. We basically moved every couple of years, and I went to a lot of different schools. But creativity, for us, was always a way of life. It was never a job. Being an artist was a passion and a way of life.

  Jared Leto

  Mom, Brother, Jobs

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

  Ariel Pink

  Song, Hate, Squash

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Book, Hearing Things

  "Tori Amos on Lauren Bacall, religion, and cleaning latrines". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2015.

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• Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Book, Ideas

  "Tori Amos on Lauren Bacall, religion, and cleaning latrines". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2015.

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• When I hear music as a fan, I see fields. I see landscapes. I close my eyes and see an entire universe that that music and the voice, or the narrative, create. A music video-and any other kind of visual reference-is created by someone else.

  Michael Stipe

  Eye, Voice, Fans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.

  Michael Stipe

  Song, Powerful, Mtv

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and I turn him into my assistant. You could say I intervene, and I intervene in a very determining way in all the aspects that have to do with the visual construction of the film.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Fashion, Assistants, Way

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

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• Once we actually have the production script after many rewrites, at that point is when I start to decide what the look and colors will be. I work like a painter, even though I'm working in three dimensions. I'm working with chairs. I'm working with walls. But even things like the floor or the walls that people might think are not important, they actually do influence the visual look of the film. These are also things that I have to think about.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Wall, Thinking, Color

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

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• Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

  Umberto Eco

  Succeed, Scene, Rendering

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• Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you’re dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations and you’re able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.

  Beau Willimon

  Character, Able, Location

  "‘Ides Of March’ Screenwriter Beau Willimon Talks Political Vs. Oscar Campaigns & Why George Clooney Deserved More Oscar Nods". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 25, 2012.

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• It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.

  Alice Walker

  Creativity, Space, Mind

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• I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Opportunity, Storytelling, Commerce

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• To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Laughing, Car, Links

  Jeffrey Veen (2001). “The Art & Science of Web Design”, New Riders Pub

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• Having visual impressions is, of course, necessary for seeing things, but it is not sufficient. What must be added is not anything sensible. And it is precisely this that unlocks the outer world for us; for without this non-sensible something, each of us would remain locked up in his inner world.

  Gottlob Frege

  World, Impression, Locked Up

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• We are limited by our visual, physical senses; yet from the Scriptures we can readily conclude that heaven is indeed not distant at all. It is nearby.

  Paul P. Enns

  Heaven, Scripture, Senses

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.64, Moody Publishers

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• Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Hands, Design, Language

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• Every artist who evolves a style does so from illusive elements that inhabit his or her visual storehouse.

  Mary Carroll Nelson

  Artist, Style, Doe

  Mary Carroll Nelson, Beth Ames Swartz (1984). “Connecting: the art of Beth Ames Swartz”, Northland Pub

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• Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Culture, Emotion, Natural

  "Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker, January 1968.

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• To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?

  Remy de Gourmont

  Memories, Writing, Style

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