Quotes About Visual Representation

#1. A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.

John Updike

#2. PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

Edward R. Tufte

#3. I looked at the stone, fragmented and cratered by my rage and jealousy. So this was a visual representation of a Diabolic's affection, then: an ugly, broken, blood-spattered stone.

S.J. Kincaid

#4. I always look at that stuff as something that's not a separate entity from the music but a visual representation of the music. I feel like your external appearance should be in harmony with your internal appearance. That's mainly our approach to the visuals.

Taraka Larson

#5. Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

Alex Cox

#6. The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.

Craig Owens

#7. Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact ... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) simulacrum: in short, a picture, of which the preconditions for feasibility are forgetfulness and a misunderstanding of processes.

Michel De Certeau

#8. All for all, always.

Martha N. Beck

#9. What are the visual and narrative processes by which animals engage with their own representation?

Susan McHugh

#10. The hour is only love thus, if you've waited.

J. Limbu

#11. Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

Edward R. Tufte

#12. Bad thing about fighters, though, too often they were forged in fire.

Shiloh Walker

#13. Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

Mark Twain

#14. One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is "out there" in the same way that a movie camera would.

David Eagleman

#15. Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

Walter J. Phillips

#16. The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

Dalai Lama

#17. We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

Nate Powell

#18. I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.

Maajid Nawaz

#19. Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

Galileo Galilei

#20. Light is what gives joy to buildings.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

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

Ben Shahn

#22. Maybe it's human nature to be drawn to the things that have hurt us the most.

Katie Alender

#23. In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.

Tim Crouch