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We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade. -- Steven Pinker
Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed. -- James Lafferty
One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language. -- Lisa Kristine
Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles. -- Peter Diamandis
Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners. -- Tom DeMarco
Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul. -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. -- Julia Glass
I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up. -- Kevin Dillon
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse. -- Robert Genn
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. -- Frank Darabont
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. -- Derek Walcott
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
I can't stop thinking about cutting myself up. Visual bruises can be covered with make-up, but down to the core, I'm all bruises. -- Majandra Delfino
Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities. -- Hans Reichenbach
Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word. -- Michael Bell
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories." -- Denise Duhamel
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. -- Laurie Anderson
To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true. -- Peter McWilliams
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. -- Julia Morgan
A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things. -- Lazaro Hernandez
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word. -- David LaChapelle
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. -- Orson Welles
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. -- Susie Orbach
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. -- Ferdinand Porsche
While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience. -- Jet Li
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. -- Walt Disney
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? -- Federico Fellini
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. -- Josef Albers
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. -- Barbara Kruger
The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single biggest boost to achieve equivalence, since the real-world Web is a visual medium. -- Joe Clark
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. -- Paul Rand
I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song. -- David Bowie
Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami. -- Virginia Postrel
For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters. -- James Wan
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear. -- Vera Wang
So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them. -- Sophia Bush
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. -- Rosemary Mahoney
But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin. -- Jerry Garcia
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. -- David Bowie
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing. -- Ann Voskamp
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials. -- William S. Burroughs
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it. -- James Marsh
Music is so visual now. -- Guillermo E. Brown
I have a visual imagination. -- Sylvia Plath
Racism is a visual pathology. -- Adrian Piper
Design is thinking made visual. -- Saul Bass
Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal -- William H. Gass
Every act is a visual judgement. -- Rudolf Arnheim
Pay attention to your visual themes. -- Andrew Mayne
It's interesting vocalizing something that is visual. -- Seamus McGarvey
Wearing: shorts + a jersey = a visual oxymoron. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I'm a great believer in visual distinctions. -- Larry Wall
Seeing, despite the name, isn't merely visual. -- Seth Godin
I paint. I love the visual arts. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
People are visual and hands on learners. -- Wolfgang Puck
Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist. -- Melanie Martinez
I like visual imagery in my head. -- Stephen Malkmus
The visual and the popular are essential. -- Rawi Hage
My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls. -- Gunter Brus
Where I come from, gettin' visual is habitual. -- GZA
...visual truth lies in the structure of light. -- Richard Kelly
Why do visual artists 'work' and musicians 'play? -- Max Elliott Slade
The thrill of doing visual effects doesn't exist. -- Evan Goldberg
Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas. -- Maya Deren
My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual. -- Albert Einstein
I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic. -- Sophia Amoruso
All great art is a visual form of prayer. -- Wendy Beckett
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. -- Dorothea Lange
It's a visual world and people respond to visuals. -- Joe Sacco
I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them. -- Sia Furler
Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling. -- Peter Travers
We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty. -- Marina Abramovic
I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical. -- Lana Del Rey
Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program. -- Steve McConnell
Let's find visual excitement in what nature has to offer. -- Toni Onley
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. -- Marcel Duchamp
I've always been involved in the visual arts and music. -- Adam Jones
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The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one. -- Susan Sontag
My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive. -- Charles Gwathmey
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual. -- Edward Tufte
Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues. -- Will Cotton
For me the visual is just as important as the music. -- Christina Aguilera
Having a visual element to your band is a good thing. -- Billy Gibbons
Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media. -- Kevin Systrom
The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual. -- Jurgen Klinsmann
The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex. -- Sol LeWitt
For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological. -- Roy DeCarava
Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works. -- Whoopi Goldberg
It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. -- Allen Klein
The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions. -- Diane Ackerman
A visual sense is something you either have or you don't. -- Elliott Erwitt
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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. -- Douglas Coupland
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual. -- Barbara Kruger
My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory. -- Georg Solti
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual. -- Jeff Vandermeer
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. -- Bridget Riley
The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception. -- Kathleen Hall Jamieson
I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer. -- Annie Lennox
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner. -- Massimo Vignelli
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Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film. -- Alan Rudolph
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one. -- Rowan Atkinson
Create instructions or a visual diagram for something that normally wouldn't need them. -- Noah Scalin
Think of Instagram. Journalism will continue to exist, but communication is now visual. -- Franca Sozzani
Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes, -- Diane von Furstenberg
I like visual layers, stylistically, that's something I enjoy and seek to do. -- Heidi Ewing
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual. -- David Lynch
Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective. -- Edward Tufte
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in. -- Larry Wall
The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty. -- Frank Luntz
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. -- Robert Bringhurst
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary. -- Shel Silverstein
I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual. -- Mads Mikkelsen
A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes. -- Roy H. Williams
I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive. -- Mary Karr

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