Faith Ringgold Quotes

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

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

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

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

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

For me, I'm not a great wordsmith, and so maybe from lack of great dialogue writing, I thought it's easier and better to express a story through visuals.

Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.

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

French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style.

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

A picture is a poem without words.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

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

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

The beauty of a Tarantino film is that the visuals match the rhythm of the words. That's his goal. And that's my goal.

I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

I can use movie as a language. Not only could it send a good message, I could let people know about my thinking and how I see the world, how I see the colour, how I see the music, how I see everything.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.