Charles Osgood Quotes

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

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

Wherever there are words, let there be pictures.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

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.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

Platforms - they come and go, but storytelling is forever.

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

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

Play is a medium of word and film is a medium of picture.

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.

With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our perception of this picture world.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.