Alva Noto Quotes

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

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

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

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

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.

What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

A picture is a poem without words.

I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.