Visual Expression Quotes

C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

When I create a song, I immediately think about what I'm going to wear when I perform that song. I think about the music video treatment and about how I'm going to look on stage when I perform the record. The connection is so obvious that it's a single package. An outfit, to me, is almost a tool to express the music.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

If you are having fun on screen, it shows.

When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

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

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Drawing was a constant in how I expressed myself.

I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effectively and as perceptive as I am able what I want to say through the actors.

In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

I thought about trying to do a strip. I even tried to do it, but I felt I didn't have the voice. Even though I liked that form, I didn't think I thought in the form of the three panels.

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

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which is the visual language.

French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style.