“John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone - those guys are consummate filmmakers. They believe that you don't talk it, you show it. So when I find a role now, I try to find a visual way to tell what the character is about rather than trying to speak about it.” WayTryingBelieveCharacterShowsGuySpeakRolesStonesFilmmakerVisuals Author:George Hamilton
“I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.” WantedVisualsPhotogenic Author:Sophia Amoruso
“Our lives are so visual now, with social media and we're constantly shifting gears. Nobody requires a table of contents. Nobody requires that one page leads to the next page, we're okay being surprised by things that are eclectic.” NextSocialOur LivesMediaPagesOkayTablesSocial MediaVisualsShiftingGearsEclecticTable Of Contents Author:Sophia Amoruso
“It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were half way between literature and the cinema. I liked the visuals and I liked the simplicity of a certain type of moral dilemma.” WayKindBookKidsCertainLiteratureSoundHalfMoralSeriousTypeSimplicityComicCinemaVisualsImpressedComic BookDilemmaHalf WayMoral Dilemma Author:Walter Hill
“I really love the fact that instrumental music can have you do your own inner-movies or your own visuals to the sound. There's not lyrics dictating what you should feel.” FeelsShouldFactsSoundVisualsDictatingInstrumental Music Author:Trentemøller
“Even if I don't think in visuals about the music while I'm doing it, after the music is finished, it could be great to incorporate that in the live show or doing my own music videos.” IfsThinkingShowsMy OwnMusic IsFinishedVideoVisuals Author:Trentemøller
“I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.” WritingKindSongElementsVisuals Author:Nick Cave
“There's that kind of song, "Whoah baby, I love you," which doesn't have a visual element, but a very strong emotional element, and these are the great songs to me - those ones that you put them on and they just make you feel great, or whatever.” FeelsKindSongStrongLove YouEmotionalBabyElementsVisualsVery StrongStrong EmotionalI Love You Baby Author:Nick Cave
“We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.” PeopleFeelsStillsArtistAsksStruggleComfortableVisualsMuseumsVisual ArtVisual Artist Author:Nick Cave
“We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"” NeedsArtistSocialProjectsVisualsVisual ArtSocial ServiceVisual ArtistRenegades Author:Nick Cave
“Today there is no greater force in the molding of the North American mind than the invasion of the imagination by the visual media.” MindTodayForceImaginationGreaterMediaVisualsInvasionMolding Author:Ravi Zacharias
“Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well.” ThinkingWellsHeartStoriesLogicCustomersCoreVisualsStakeholder Author:Scott D. Anthony
“I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives.” PeopleMomentsCultureMetsIdiotVisuals Author:Kehinde Wiley
“People who - and I think that's been a huge education for me. I think it's a - it's a privilege to be able to meet such a broad cross-section of New York and increasingly the world, and to get a feel of how people respond to visual culture.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsAbleCultureNew YorkHugeCrossesPrivilegeVisualsBroadsSections Author:Kehinde Wiley
“About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and older metaphysical frameworks in the 17th and 18th centuries. The other 30% consists of one-off essays or researches into other intriguing contemporary topics such as visual experience, aesthetics, social justice issues, and the epistemology of moral knowledge.” SocialJusticeMoralIssuesWrittenCenturyResearchSocial JusticeContemporaryVisualsConformityTopicsMetaphysicalEssaysFrameworkAestheticsEmergingClashIntriguingEpistemology18th CenturyPhysical Science Author:Catherine Wilson
“I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, "Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment." By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist; it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down.” FirstsStillsMomentsArtistTasteOkayEntertainmentDrawingNervousComicVisualsFrightenedIconic Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I'm a visual thinker, so I think of everything visually, first. A lot of what an issue will become for me starts with me thinking, "What's a great cover?," or "What's the splash image?," or "What is the title of the issue? How do I see the text?" I think about all of that stuff, and then the story comes out of that imagery.” ThinkingFirstsStoriesStuffIssuesTitlesVisualsThinkerImagery Author:Gerard Way
“I'm not going to wait on anybody to put out music or a visual. Everything I will do is on my own. I'm not waiting on anyone.” WaitingMy OwnVisuals Author:Mario
“One of my first things I was fascinated with when I got on set was how does Grant do all this Flash stuff? it looks so good as the end product, but how does the special effects team work? How does the visual effects team work?” FirstsLooksDoeEndsStuffTeamSpecialEffectsProductsVisualsGrantsFascinatedFlashTeam WorkSpecial EffectsVisual Effects Author:Tom Felton
“I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.” ThinkingKnowsWayKindInterestPoetTrainingContemporaryVisualsImagery Author:Martha Ronk
“I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.” WellsStoriesFeltNovelVisualsRunnersGraphicKitesRetellingGraphic Novels Author:Khaled Hosseini
“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
“Even if you close your eyes, you'll still hear Donald Trump sniffing. Linguists might call [these visuals] paralinguistics, every form of information including facial gestures and facial features. Obviously these things get scrutinized in tremendous detail, so that a cough can be of outsized importance. [But] that's all part of the package.” IfsStillsMightEyeFormInformationTrumpImportanceIncludingDetailsFeaturesVisualsGesturesPackagesFacialLinguistsSniffingFacial Features Author:Ben Zimmer
“When I see somebody sun-drenched in a shot with their espadrilles and a cup of coffee, I'm like, "Your life is amazing. It's so perfect." I get drawn into that very easily so it totally worked, because the visual style sucks you in. It makes you want that.” WantLife IsPerfectSunStyleLike YouShotsCoffeeCupsVisualsCoffee CupLife Is Amazing Author:Rashida Jones
“I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics degree I had undertaken at ANU, I started a BFA in Sydney which I completed at VCA in Melbourne.” Has BeensArtSchoolInterestDegreesHigh SchoolEconomicsVisualsRealisingSydneyVisual ArtMelbourne Author:Patricia Piccinini
“Taika [Waititi] came up... We kind of had and we sort of named this girl Moana, named after the ocean. And we had a very, a visual outline of the story. And we heard about Taika from people in the South Pacific that we talked to.” PeopleKindStoriesGirlHeardOceanSouthVisualsOutlinesPacificThis Girl Author:Ron Clements
“I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked, "Would it be possible to incorporate visual art?" My sister stitches pillowcases, which led to Mary suggesting using cyanotype on them. I originally thought of the idea of pillowcases because when people get married, they have the bride and the groom lay their hands on each other's pillows while their relatives tie ribbons on their wrists. And then on the bed you usually have two pillows - one for yourself and one for your loved one - so when one is gone, one pillow remains.” PeopleArtTwoIdeasHandsGoneNew YorkMetsBedProjectsMarriedRemainsLaysTiesVisualsMy SisterLoved OnesMaryPillowBridesWristsSuggestingExhibitionsRibbonsVisual ArtStitchesOral HistoryPillowcases Author:Chath Piersath
“I'm also developing my own narrative, because I'm the son of a widow. And so, while working with women and gathering their oral histories, I'm taking a step back to do my own art book and visual work.” ArtBookMy OwnStepsSonDevelopingNarrativeVisualsGatheringWidowsOral History Author:Chath Piersath
“When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.” ArtDifferentBodyShapesElementsTransformationVisualsThings Change Author:Chath Piersath
“Mary's [Hamill] working from an outsider perspective and I'm working from an insider-outside perspective. In this case, it will bring an added dimension to the visual aspects of the work. Also the processes and approaches that I'm thinking are about learning. I'm playing it by ear to experiment and see what happens.” ThinkingHappensProcessCasesPerspectiveApproachAspectEarsExperimentsVisualsDimensionsMaryOutsidersInsiders Author:Chath Piersath
“Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts, or poetry, a lot of those elements can come and help you, can trigger your creativity. But you have to be open, be aware, and you have to be ready to look.” LooksArtHelpingUseCreativityReadyMaterialsLike YouElementsToolsPerformingVisualsTriggersVisual ArtPerforming Arts Author:Chath Piersath
“I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me. It's something I haven't practiced as diligently as my visual art. I've been doing visual art because I think it's easier for me to construct, whereas words are very difficult.” ThinkingWayWritingArtInspirationDifficultHavensEasierArt IsWaveVisualsConstructsVisual Art Author:Chath Piersath
“When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books. We were always the ones that read the most books in class. I thought about writing but visual arts weren't part of my vocabulary.” WritingArtBookClassMy FriendsVisualsGradesContestsVocabularyVisual ArtSixth Grade Author:Chath Piersath
“I have some advantages of viewing from the two lenses, the two perspectives. I think that a lot of visual artists who come back here from the United States and are Cambodian also write from their American references - looking inside the old culture, and looking at themselves as an American looking into the country where they were born.” ThinkingWritingTwoCountryStatesArtistCultureBornUnitedUnited StatesPerspectiveAdvantageVisualsLensesVisual ArtVisual ArtistOld Culture Author:Chath Piersath
“I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton.” ArtistPiecesStructureEightCaliforniaVisualsTowersVisual ArtHamiltonVisual Artist Author:Pauline Oliveros
“I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as visual reflections from a mirror or surface, and then reflecting on the material in a contemplative way. The other influence is listening to the tails of the sounds that you make.” WayTryingWellsTwoSoundInfluenceMaterialsListeningReflectionMirrorsSurfaceSensesVisualsTailsReflectingTwo WaysImprovisationAcousticsContemplativeCentering Author:Pauline Oliveros
“I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.” Has BeensArtistNaturalConcernedVisualsPresentationArtworkVisual ArtVisual Artist Author:PJ Harvey
“Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.” IdeasCreatingJokesMusicalTraditionalVisuals Author:Reggie Watts
“Kids are very visual, and they might not eat a food just because of its colour.” MightKidsVisualsColour Author:Tom Aikens
“There will be scenes in a movie where people are walking through the park, or through a forest, and you're seeing the flickering leaves around them, and they're walking, but you're also hearing their words. It's an interaction between where they are and what they're saying that's both visual and verbal.” PeopleSeeingWalkingSceneHearingForestsParksVisualsInteraction Author:Lynne Rae Perkins
“Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages.” MessagesSensesLocalsChainsEncountersVisualsCompellingUnlikelyStimulusSupermarketsRetail Author:Martin Lindstrom
“I like visual arts, and what I love doing is participating in the making of it.” ArtVisualsParticipatingVisual Art Author:Sonia Braga
“Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.” DoeVideoVisualsInterpretationAdam Author:Maynard James Keenan
“Australia is one of the few places that I can think of where the cities, at least those I've been to, seem to have strikingly different characters and visual textures. To an American like me, there's basically Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and the rest is all bush.” ThinkingI CanDifferentCharacterSeemsCitiesLike MeVisualsAustraliaTextureSydneyDifferent CharactersMelbourne Author:Michael Bierut
“In the US you have New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami and dozens of other cities; a few of them have a really strong visual character. But even with those there is just too much space between them and too many people.” PeopleCharacterStrongSpaceCitiesToo MuchNew YorkVisualsLos AngelesDozenBostonSan FranciscoMiamiSpace Between Author:Michael Bierut
“I got a job as the Visuals Art's Teacher at my Alma Mata, St. Mary's College. Then my interests shifted to animation. Ironically, it was one of my students who sparked this energy in me by introducing me to an animation program called FLASH. So I dabbled and played around with it.” ArtJobsEnergyInterestTeacherStudentsCollegeProgramVisualsMaryIntroducingFlashAnimation Author:St. Lucia
“As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.” MindArtTeacherStyleVisualsVisual ArtCubismArt TeacherPointillism Author:St. Lucia
“Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere.” StillsMightOrderStuffSoundSeeingMetaphorBehaveVisuals Author:Jerry Garcia