Joe Sacco Quotes

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

One picture is worth a thousand words.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

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

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

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

We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.

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.

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

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

Oceans of emotion can be transmitted through a text message, an emoji sequence, and a winking semicolon, but humans are hardwired to respond to visuals.

Cinema is a visual medium one has to communicate through visuals, and therefore, dialogues should be less.

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

The style depends on the subject.

We live in a visual world now.

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 look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?'

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate.

I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.