Visual Form Quotes

#1. All great art is a visual form of prayer.

Wendy Beckett

#2. What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.

Richard Schmid

#3. It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.

Walt Disney

#4. I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a specific flavour which affects our senses.

Adamo Macri

#5. I see what's going on," I said. "You're confusing beauty with this society's current idea of perfection of visual form.

A.M. Jenkins

#6. Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Robert Bringhurst

#7. I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

Agnes Denes

#8. I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.

Steve Mann

#9. Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

Siri Hustvedt

#10. In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#11. Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation ... From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life all movement and rhythm time and light, color and mood in short, all reality in Form and Thought.

Hans Hofmann

#12. Had stood there silently, watching, without interest or purpose, like a chemical compound on a photographic plate, absorbing visual shapes because they were there to be absorbed, but unable ever to form any estimate of the objects of her vision.

Ayn Rand

#13. A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.

Joan Miro

#14. Our knowledge of shape and form remains, in general, a mixture of visual and of tactile experiences ... A child learns about roundness from handling a ball far more than from looking at it.

Henry Moore

#15. The task of writing a novel is to imagine a world
a world that first exists as a picture before it eventually takes the form of words. Only later do we express through words the picture we imagine, so that readers can share this product of the imagination.

Orhan Pamuk

#16. Fort somehow turned the symbol of nerdiness into a visual aphrodisiac - Spanish fly in the form of solid black frames.

Shirin Dubbin

#17. Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.

Marty Sklar

#18. Some people ... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.

Tibor Kalman

#19. Art can be thought of as a form of visual foreplay before the climax.

V.S. Ramachandran

#20. I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done in comics and which pay homage to the many strands of comic and visual storytelling tradition.

Arvind Ethan David

#21. When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics.

Jimenez Lai

#22. I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

Chris Van Allsburg

#23. Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the "imagetext" incarnate

W. J. T. Mitchell

#24. So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

John Sexton

#25. When judging a product, we rarely have exhaustive scientific data to go by. As a result, if we are to form a complete picture, we must fill in the blanks, just as we must in our visual perception.

Leonard Mlodinow

#26. My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Michael Tippett

#27. I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

Roy Lichtenstein

#28. Many experiments have shown that readers understand and remember material far better when it is expressed in concrete language that allows them to form visual images,

Steven Pinker

#29. You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.

Masha Tupitsyn

#30. My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn't grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.

Tom Tomorrow

#31. Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual world, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving form to one's living space.

Walter Gropius

#32. The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.

Susan Stewart

#33. Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Jeffrey Kluger

#34. If you were blind you would hardly have fallen in love in the first place. But now, do you truly wish to see the beloved in the cold clarity of the visual apparatus? It may be in your better interest to throw a veil over the gaze, so as to keep her alive in her archetypal, goddesslike form.

J.M. Coetzee

#35. I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

Judi Dench

#36. Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.

Cathryn Louis

#37. Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer.

Kenneth Anger

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

Walter J. Phillips

#39. Film is probably the medium best suited to reach the most people - the visual, the aural, the limbic, the intellectual: it captures all these parts of our mind and soul. No other art form comes close.

Peter Landesman

#40. Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

James P Hackett

#41. Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

Denise Duhamel