Chuck Close Quotes

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.

What appears on the screen is what people see. Everything else is just interpretation.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

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

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

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

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'm a visual person.

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

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 constantly being visually stimulated.

What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together.

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

Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment.

Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented with distinct, whole pictures and objects.

Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind.

People do not read first. First and foremost, they see color. Then they see numbers, then shape, and then, if you still have their attention and they understand what you put in front of them, then they will read.

You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what's going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.