Mark Getty Quotes

Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.

But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot.

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

We live in a visual world now.

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

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

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

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.

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

There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.

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.

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

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.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

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

The moment when images replaced words in American politics.

Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts.

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

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

We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.

I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn't. I wouldn't be able to describe my style or even tell if I have one or not.

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.

Video is just exploding on Instagram - motion is the new filter. We're going to help people use visuals to tell their stories.