Visual Diary Quotes

When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

My sketchbook became everything to me.

The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I didn’t relate to European photography. It was too poetic and anecdotal for me… the kinetic quality of new york, the kids, dirt, madness—I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I would be grainy and contrasted and black. Id crop, blur, play with the negatives. I didn’t see clean technique being right for New York. I could imagine my pictures lying in the gutter like the New York Daily News.

My movies are personal notes of my whole life.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.