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“The type of adverts to be found on television and in glossy magazines are visually designed to have a power over the mind before they can even be questioned. The dark side of my work, primarily concerns the internal mechanisms of visual imagery and how these mechanisms address the mind.”

Mind Found Sides Dark Television Type Concern Magazines Visuals Addresses Internals Mechanism Imagery Dark Side Adverts Visual Imagery

Author:Mat Collishaw

“What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.”

Giving Difficult Simple Clear Information Design Tasks Complexes Access Designer Complexity Visuals Revelations Subtle Display Complication Portrayal

Author:Edward Tufte

“Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...”

Design Visuals Habitual

Author:GZA

“Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.”

Thinking Made Clear Design Designer Visuals Graphic Design Good Design Graphic Artist Graphic Designer Clear Thinking

Author:Edward Tufte

“It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.”

Stories Reality Strong Loss Possibility Meaningful Visuals Compelling Love And Loss

Author:Michael Almereyda

“After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show, but told it with the visual language of a sitcom format.”

Ifs Shows Reality Would Be Language Felt Meetings Visuals Sitcom Format Being Cool Reality Shows

Author:Tony DiSanto

“If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.”

Ifs Way Writing Wells Use Action Film Moving Novel Tricks Visuals Sequence Rhetorical Good Actions

Author:Justin Cronin

“At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.”

Thinking Way Inspirational Art School Funny New York Degrees Theater Fantastic Visuals New Ways Graduation Way Of Thinking Visual Art

Author:Laurie Anderson

“Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.”

Made Problem Turns Choices Design Smart Visuals Interaction Users Navigation Smart Choices

Author:Jesse James Garrett

“The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.”

Ideas Problem Understanding Design Communication Higher Easier Essentials Function Complexes Profession Data Visuals Our Society Retention Complex Problems Auditory

Author:Will Burtin

“Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.”

People Thinking Art Form Language Ability Design Advantage Visuals Good Art Systems Thinking Competitive Advantage

Author:James P Hackett

“Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).”

“Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.”

People Certain Culture Given Goal Design Expression Draws Statements Visuals Symbolic Life Goal Good Design

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.”

Form Language Design Designer Visuals Timelessness Typography Great Design Best Design Durability

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.”

Life Body Process Primaries Visuals

Author:Albert Einstein

“You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better chance of holding the viewer. People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull. When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.”

People Ifs Firsts Chance Attention Fire Tvs Surprise Screens Visuals Dull Seconds Viewers Tv Commercial Fire Extinguishers

Author:David Ogilvy

“With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.”

War Argument Discussion Visuals Vietnam Vietnam War Visual Images

Author:Cornell Capa

“Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young painters and sculptors need to know the works of their immediate elders. Such a continuity does not exist here to a sufficient degree in the visual arts.”

Knows Needs Doe Art Today Young Artist Difficult Position Painting Degrees Painter Sufficient Visuals Elders Continuity Sculptors Visual Art

Author:Ilya Ehrenburg

“Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal”

Fiction Becoming Visuals

Book:On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry

Source: On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry

“I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.”

Opportunity Saws Pieces Fronts Couple Scene Directors Visuals Props

Author:James Cameron

“I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.”

Thinking Way Mind Values Powerful Media Mathematical Visuals Organize Literacy Old Fashioned Flexible Media Literacy

Author:Neal Stephenson

“In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them”

Sometimes Sound Interesting Design Program Visuals Graphs Sound Design

Author:Doug Aitken

“I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?”

Art Real Reality Differences Photography Drawing Mediums Mess Visuals Unreal Bending Questionable

Author:Storm Thorgerson

“Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.”

Should Ideas Philosophy Series Glorious Visuals Display Composition Disconnected Iceberg

Book:Travels in Hyperreality

Source: Travels in Hyperreality

“The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagine how you felt when you heard it, if it was one of your songs. If it became one of your songs. If it meant whatever it meant for you and as soon as you see the visual, you get a rapid eye movement relationship with the song instead of an imaginative one. I think that can be dangerous because I don't think I'd want to be listening to a song on the radio and thinking about the video. Whatever that one interpretation was”

Ifs Thinking Want Mean Eye Song Felt Can Do Forget Imagine Heard Dangerous Danger Movement Listening Radio Video Best Things Visuals Interpretation Imaginative Rapids

Author:Ric Ocasek

“Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.”

Knows World Way Important Problem Culture Understanding Sound Silence Music Taught Listening Quiet Hearing Senses Noise Visuals

Author:Bernie Krause

“In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness”

World Has Beens Said Strong Pleasure Roles Female Impact Males Appearance Active Traditional Visuals Splits Passive Erotic Imbalance Exhibitionist

Book:Visual and Other Pleasures

Source: Visual and Other Pleasures

“I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.”

Running Form Next Left Imagination Objects Source Exercise Appearance Accidents Visuals Smallest Thirst Next Day Recollection Sustenance

Book:Odilon Redon: pastels

Source: Odilon Redon: pastels

“Years ago, I thought up the name Queen...It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid...It's a strong name, very universal and immediate. It had a lot of visual potential and was open to all sorts of interpretations. I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it.”

Years Names Strong Sound Gay Years Ago Universal Queens Visuals Just One Interpretation Splendid Facets Connotation Regal

Author:Freddie Mercury

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

Art Speak Talking Building Architecture Visuals Architect Visual Art Architecture And Art

Author:Julia Morgan

“Brand-image campaigns establish contact with the subconscious of the consumer below the word level. They do this with visual symbols instead of words, Mr. Martineau says, because the visual symbols are far more significant. They communicate faster. They are more direct. There is no work, no mental effort. Their sole purpose is to create images and moods.”

Purpose Levels Effort Direct Communicate Mood Contact Advertising Symbols Faster Consumers Visuals Sole Subconscious

Author:Rosser Reeves

“Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.”

Art Literature Complicated Theatre Movie Visuals Gambling Collision Visual Art

Author:Yahoo Serious

“By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.”

Sound Term Media Universal Abstract Visuals Meaningless Formation Trans Static Alphabet Containers

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.”

“The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure”

Ability Seeing Built Dignity Direct Impact Structure Visuals Inherent Observers

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.”

People Young Imagination Visuals Sophisticated

Author:Robert Doisneau

“Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.”

People World Feels Different Soul Sound Quiet Visuals Meditating Being Quiet

Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.”

Thinking Kind Art Form Results Position Architecture Realms Visuals Wholeness

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.”

Shows Quality Program Structure Code Visuals Programming Logical Software Engineering Layout Code Quality

Author:Steve McConnell

“A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.”

Giving Kind Done Certain Bits Decision Results Painting Conscious Mere Details Visuals Dimensions Abstraction Personal Experiences Nuance Decoration Selective Pitfalls

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.”

Looks Made Vision Plans Emotional Perception Photography Photographer Ignorant Visuals Blinders

Author:Jay Maisel

“The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how you express your artistry. Look at paintings, movies, drawings, sculptures - look at anything visual and try to integrate that into your visual sense. After that, go out and take pictures and keep on taking pictures!”

Giving Trying Looks Young Advice Painting Photography Photographer Drawing Visuals Sculpture Integrating Artistry Taking Pictures

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.”

Way Doe Subjects Painting Photography Photograph Drawing Visuals Interpretation Imitation Rendering Naturalist Visual Images

Book:About Looking

Source: About Looking

“Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics.”

“This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the case for many of us, Tori's ancestry is a mix of races and religions, philosophies and professions, fortunes and foibles. What to some may seem like a family tree grown wild and untamed is actually a mighty oak that has weathered life's many storms and can still put out a rare and beautiful blossom like Tori.”

“Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.”

Enough Film Fiction Effects Visuals Precise Viewers Visual Images

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.”

World Feelings Environment Significant Objectives Visuals Meaningless Significant Things

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.”

Two Used Artist Fall Stuff Tools Cameras Visuals Categories Brushes Old Days Visual Art Visual Artist

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.”

Kind Art Literature Community United Compassion Creativity Ideals Incredibles Traditional All Kinds Lifts Visuals Visual Art

Author:Martin O'Malley

“Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.”

Thinking Dream Form Emotional Visuals Concrete Nevertheless Thought Of The Day

Book:The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

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