Diogo Morgado Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

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.

The moment when images replaced words in American politics.

Image has become everything.

People see images now more than they see movies.

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

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

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

I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our perception of this picture world.

I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.

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.

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

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.

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.

When I was a boy, there were three influences on children. The school, the family, and the church. Now there is a fourth---television.