“The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative. Some photographers use it brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty.” FactsUseDifficultColorPhotographyEmptyDifficultyPhotographerCaughtStatementsVisualsCaught UpColorfulCombining Author:Mary Ellen Mark
“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.” ValuesFallWatchesMovementColorPatternsEntertainmentScreensRhythmMessVisualsPlotLampsKaleidoscopeLavaBright ColorsLava Lamps Book:Your Movie Sucks Source: Your Movie Sucks
“In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect.” DifferentFormUsedPrinciplesEffectsColorBrokenIntenseVisualsTextureDotsImpressionismImpressionistsVisual Effects Author:John French Sloan
“Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.” ArtistColorExpressionVisualsSensibilitySensitivityInnatePalette Author:Scott Kahn
“If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it's very hot. The gray allows the eye to do the visual mixing.” IfsEyeNextColorHotIntenseVisualsGrayMixingComplement Author:Simmie Knox
“I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility because the medium is very much a director's medium. Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium so a lot of the time when you're directing a television show they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined and you just kind of have to follow the rules.” KindShowsBitsResponsibilityStyleTelevisionColorDirectorsComplicatedMediumsProducersVisualsTelevision ShowsPalettePredetermined Author:Jason Bateman
“An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.” LinesColorWeightVisualsAngleIllustrationEditorials Author:Charles M. Blow
“What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.” WayArtSeemsMovingFormCertainLinesAnswersCommonEmotionQualityObjectsParticularColorRelationSignificantCombinationVisualsAestheticProvokingVisual Art Author:Clive Bell
“Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads to creative manifestation in form and color. With that in mind, it might be suggested that the visual artist, - from commercial designer to fine art painter - has much to do with most things that enter your everyday visuals, and thus form a major portion of one's reality and, certainly, how this culture manifests and evolves.” MindArtRealityMightFormArtistCultureCreativeColorMaterialsFineMajorsEverydayPainterEvolvePerceiveManifestationDesignerVisualsPortionsSymbolicFine ArtsVisual ArtArtifactsVisual Artist Author:Robert Venosa
“During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.” EndsHelpingFeelingsResultsColorHotPaintVisualsOrangeEnd ResultsUnsatisfiedFudgeConsultationMarmalade Author:Tabatha Coffey
“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.” MatterOrderVisionKnowingColorConceptsImpressionVisualsLatterTerminology Author:Wilfrid Sellars
“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.” PeopleThinkingLooksImportantMightFilmThreeInfluenceColorWallScriptsProductionsPainterVisualsDimensionsChairsThree Dimensions Author:Pedro Almodovar
“I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.” WayWritingColorSceneVisualsDescriptionThinker Author:Gerald Vizenor
“The images are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic. They aren't laid down on the same tracks as thought. And sometimes, when they return to you, it is as if you feel them for the very first time. Memory lives on in the details, like the color of a room, a tone of a voice, the touch of a child, the smell of a man.” IfsMenFeelsFirstsChildrenSometimesVoiceMemoriesRoomsColorReturnFirst TimeTrackDetailsSmellToneVisualsAuditory Author:Martha Manning
“The goal is to align with your core group of collaborators, who understand your vision and aesthetics. I usually show them visual material of what I have in mind, as well as a color spectrum of mood boards.” MindWellsShowsGoalVisionGroupsColorMaterialsCoreMoodBoardsVisualsSpectrumAestheticsCollaborators Author:Marc Forster
“I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.” IfsMindLightMightMovingSpaceInformationDangerColorShapesSafeMoving ForwardVisualsKeep MovingKeep Moving ForwardMoving Forward In LifeJust Keep MovingKeep It MovingJust Keep Moving ForwardForward In Life Author:Rosemary Mahoney
“I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost anything that I write, I'll stay completely immersed in the electronic text of it for a period of time and in another period, I'll stay immersed in it as a physical thing that can cut your skin. So with the apocalypses, I had them taped all over the wall and they had codes on them. Sometimes I would color code them in terms of thematic elements, sometimes in terms of voice, sometimes visual forms or images.” ThinkingWritingSometimesFormVoiceTermCuttingColorWallPeriodsElementsSkinsCodeVisualsConcreteApocalypseEphemeralPhysical ThingsThematic Author:Lucy Corin
“I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind. We say it to ourselves. But they are also visual things. You draw them. They are designed. They are colored. They have a certain size. I put them in a certain place. So they are objects that have to be - artistic decisions have to be made in terms of the color and the size and the line and whatever.” ThinkingMindMayMadeCertainSpeakTermLinesDecisionWrittenObjectsColorWallDrawsSizeArtisticVisuals Author:Robert Barry
“A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work.” BrainVisionColorThirdsSmellSensesVisualsGenesDevotedProcessingSophistication Author:John Medina
“Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.” PeopleWantWritingFirstsLooksSometimesArtistLevelsColorVisualsVisual Artist Author:Bjork