“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.” PeopleWorldFeelsKindDoeWarFactsNumbersStyleObjectsNewsIntellectualMachinesPolicePhotographCrowdsBrilliantWar Of The WorldsVisualsSignificanceLarge NumbersSecond World WarOminousRioting Author:John Fowles
“Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."” ThinkingArtWantedFormFoundLanguageVisionCenturyFieldsObjectsChangedMaterialsMovedComplexesDetailsBoundariesVisualsUnitsPersistentPioneersAlteredNew ThoughtFrame Of ReferenceImpressionism Author:Jasper Johns
“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
“The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.” BookIdeasHomeObjectsSourceLibraryVisualsVolumeUnendingMost Inspiring Author:Maira Kalman
“Human beings are really attuned to their senses. When you work in film, you are working with the visual and audio senses. An understanding of tactile and other components that go into the creation of those objects are important to making them look real on screen, like a plasma of energy.” HumansLooksImportantRealFilmEnergyUnderstandingHuman BeingsCreationObjectsScreensSensesVisualsComponentsAudioTactilePlasma Author:John Dykstra
“When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.” PeopleWholeMightWalksVisionCarObjectsJudgingWallErrorsBunchVisualsSignalsDisturbingCliffsHeadingsProcessing Author:Usama Fayyad
“Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object.” LightResultsObjectsTypeBearsReflectionPhotographSurfaceSensitiveVisualsIcons Book:The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths Source: The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
“An echo is a good way to describe the photogram, which is a visual echo of the real object. That's why I like to work with the photogram, because the contact with what is represented is actual. It's as if the border between the world and the print is osmotic.” IfsWorldWayRealObjectsContactBordersVisualsPrintEchoesGood Way Author:Adam Fuss
“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
“We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.” MindMiddleMovementFieldsObjectsSightSizeVisualsNoticing Author:Dale Jamieson
“One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual space. We have a whole mass of complex ways of understanding what is the nature of visual space. A proper part of psychology ought to be, and in recent years has been, an effort to try to discover the principles of how we organize visual space. I would say that the same is true of every domain of psychology, of human studies.” KnowsWayTryingYearsHumansHas BeensWholeLanguageUnderstandingSpaceEffortPrinciplesStudyPsychologyOne ThingObjectsOughtMassComplexesBehaveVisualsOrganizeDomain Author:Noam Chomsky