JR Quotes

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.

“One picture is worth a thousand words,” said an ancient Chinese; but it may take ten thousand words to validate it.

Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

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

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

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

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?'

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

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.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

One picture is worth a thousand words.

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

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which is the visual language.

Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.

My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations – there is no dictionary meaning… they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them.

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

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

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

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.