Leonard Shlain Quotes

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.

Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.

I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in.

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

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

I think any opportunity you can to employ some visual technique, go for it.

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

Twitter vs Instagram is a left brain versus right brain kind of social media device. Twitter is for speaking, whereas Instagram is for your artistry. It's how we communicate, via visual versus our words. So it's a good workout, it's a good brain workout.

Video is the most interesting and engaging way to share an idea with others.

Photography helps people to see.

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.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

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.

Unfortunately, one picture is worth a thousand facts.

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

I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.

We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is.

Film is a tool of change.

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

I don't really like reading: I like seeing and touching images.

I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.

Cinema is a visual medium one has to communicate through visuals, and therefore, dialogues should be less.

I think, even a lot of people that make movies forget is that, in my mind, a movie should work with the sound off. You should be able to watch a movie without the sound and understand what's going on. That's your job, to build a series of chronological images that tell the story.

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.