Visual Power Quotes

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

Since I started as an actress in the film industry, I realised the power of visuals and how that can fuel the imagination of our mind. It is very powerful. Therefore, I always cater to my own sensibility first and then to the world.

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

Imagery is powerful. Imagery is provocative - satellite imagery much more so because it is from space, and it allows us to get this perspective that we don't have to have otherwise.

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

I remember a picture on the front page of the 'Sun' during the Brixton riots: a rasta guy with a petrol bomb, and a headline saying something like: 'The Future of Britain.' And I thought: 'Wow! Look at the power of that image,' and I wanted to get behind the camera to make these people three-dimensional.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.

It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

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

One single glance will conquer all descriptions.

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

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

I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.

I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

My visuals are typically very powerful. The rhythm is fast. The cuts are fast.

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

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

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.

The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.

We are truly bombarded by images. To break through and be observed, let alone focused on, you have to have impact and power.