Lynda Barry Quotes

A picture is worth a thousand words.

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.

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

Image is an international language.

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

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

One picture is worth a thousand words.

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

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

I write really visually. In my head, I'm constantly picturing things as I'm writing, so for me, videos are such an expressive part of my job.

We're really interested in more visual storytelling, figuring out a way to blend our level of observation with a bigger visual scope.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

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

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

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

The image is an image.

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

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

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.

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.

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.