Visual Intensity Quotes

[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.

I don't know if it's a stare or if it's something I do with my eyes when I'm really focused in on someone or something. Apparently it comes out every now and then.

When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.

I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.

There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.