Quotes About Expression

I love the visual aspect of the theater. But I like what people have to say, too.

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

There's so many things about Babymetal you cannot just grasp with the sound. The visual has to compliment the sound, the costumes have to compliment the sound.

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.

'Piku' was driven by subtleties. Most films come with the padding of the sound, the visual, the drama.

Every time we come out, there's a hunger for creative expression or creative ways to put out content that isn't duplicated from our last run. Whether it's technology, messaging, visual... we're always pushing the envelope.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I'm such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand.

Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are relentlessly visual and even poetic.

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.

With regards to music, I don't want to pigeonhole myself and say I am a musician or a visual artist, because I feel like it's all-encompassing, and I feel like every bit of my art is related to the other.

The thrill of doing visual effects doesn't exist.

Whether you're Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it's text, text, text. Everything begins with the text, and this is a source of great anguish to me. So please let cinema get on with doing what it does best, which is expressing ideas in visual terms.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling.

I am a film director, and I work with a visual language, with a visual medium. And I try to make virtue of the use of this visual medium. And I try to make sure what I do speaks the language of cinema.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

What you write sets the visual style for the film. But you have to compromise your style in your first few films before people let you do what you want to do.

It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

Language, I think, has nothing to do with film-making. It is how you make your point and whether you exploit the visual medium maintaining a certain standard that does the trick.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.