Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.

I'm a visual person.

In some ways, I'm just a visual person.

I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment.

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

People see images now more than they see movies.

I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.

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

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

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is.

Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.

I think any opportunity you can to employ some visual technique, go for it.

I'm a hypervisual person.

I don't really like reading: I like seeing and touching images.

You are either visual or you're not.

No one reads anything. They just look at images.

I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.