SZA Quotes

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

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

I'm a visual person.

In some ways, I'm just a visual person.

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

I'm visually stimulated, so I watch TV, movies, even Pinterest. A song could come from something as simple as being words splashed across a billboard or changing everyday turns of phrases.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

We live in a visual world now.

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

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?'

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.

I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

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'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.

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

I write really visually. In my head, I'm constantly picturing things as I'm writing, so for me, videos are such an expressive part of my job.

Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.

I think visually, and music videos spark my creativity.

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.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

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