Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

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

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

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?'

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

I'm a visual person.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together.

In some ways, I'm just a visual person.

Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.