Keanu Reeves Quotes

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

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.

We live in a visual world now.

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

People see images now more than they see movies.

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

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

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

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.

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've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

That night image had replaced the written word as the natural language of politics.

The moment when images replaced words in American politics.

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.

More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

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.