Roy H. Williams Quotes

Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate.

Usually, a number of events will be going on around me to start me on a book. What I mean is, I will have read a poem or seen a picture that is lingering in my mind.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective.

What appears on the screen is what people see. Everything else is just interpretation.

The necessary condition for an image is sight.

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

The eye will have his part.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.

A picture is a model of reality.

It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

I have a policy that I don't actually watch the work that I do. There are all kinds of reasons to do that, but one really interesting side effect that has come about from that is that I have no imagery of the show that isn't from first-person.

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.

The visual is important. "Let's get to work" says let's get it done, and that's what they want.