David Longstreth Quotes

Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

We're really interested in more visual storytelling, figuring out a way to blend our level of observation with a bigger visual scope.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

The way I put together images is a reactive art.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

The style depends on the subject.

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.

One picture is worth a thousand words.

“One picture is worth a thousand words,” said an ancient Chinese; but it may take ten thousand words to validate it.

Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

I don't really care what the visual is looking like. I've gotten away from - not shenanigans, but spectacle.

For me, Instagram had become a place where I could image myself the way I found myself.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

I hope to do a visual for every 
single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.