MF Doom Quotes

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

A picture is worth a thousand words.

One picture is worth a thousand words.

“One picture is worth a thousand words,” said an ancient Chinese; but it may take ten thousand words to validate it.

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.

I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

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

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.

I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

Image has become everything.

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

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.

We're really interested in more visual storytelling, figuring out a way to blend our level of observation with a bigger visual scope.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

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

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

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

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.