Daniel H. Pink Quotes

What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

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

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

We live in a visual world now.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

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

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

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

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

Bringing words to life, storyboards show you things that words can't.

I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows me to embrace the visual world that I love. It's allows me to interact with people, to be more social than fiction or poetry, and it felt like the right way for me to tell the stories that felt pressing to me.

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

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

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

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

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

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.

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

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.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.