Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

The image is an image.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

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

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

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?'

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

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

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

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

Image is an international language.

The style depends on the subject.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

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.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.

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.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

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.

The camera doesn't intimidate me.

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.