Quotes of Visual - somelinesforyou

“ In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us. ”

- Richard Whately

“ As men of inward light are wontTo turn their optics in upon't. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ The decision was made to enter the room after visual confirmation where all the parties were. ”

- William Kennedy

“ Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. ”

- Julia Morgan

“ It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. ”

- J. Carter Brown

“ The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated. ”

- Mack R. Douglas

“ Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual. ”

- John Reeves

“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”

- Ralph Nader

“ What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate. ”

- Dr Edward Mayhew

“ I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. ”

- Marcel Duchamp

“ One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. ”

- Dorothea Lange

“ Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. ”

- John Milton

“ 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

“ Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. ”

- Claude Debussy

“ I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. ”

- Thomas Wilson

“ Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. ”

- Eugenio Montale

“ Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. ”

- Arnold Newman

“ It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. ”

- Hans Hofmann

“ Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done. ”

- Alex Cox

“ The audience will have to focus on the visuals... But they had silent films before talkies arrived, and people went to see them. ”

- Mel Gibson

“ Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. ”

- Paul Cezanne

“ It's always a hoot to apply a screaming guitar to a high-action visual. ”

- Steve Vai

“ It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. ”

- Allen Klein

“ 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

“ I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action. ”

- Richard Thompson

“ A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ The magic of photography is metaphysical. What you see in the photograph isn't what you saw at the time. The real skill of photography is organized visual lying. ”

- Terence Donovan

“ Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act, making ourselves visible is a continual process. ”

- Joan E. Biren
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