Caroline Knapp Quotes

I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

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

Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.

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

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 feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in.

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.

Unfortunately, one picture is worth a thousand facts.

I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

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

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

Oceans of emotion can be transmitted through a text message, an emoji sequence, and a winking semicolon, but humans are hardwired to respond to visuals.

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.

You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

Image is an international language.

We live in a visual world now.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

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

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.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

I speak the language of television.