#visual

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#dropped #explore #fairly #first #form

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#also #audience #especially #harder #here

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing. ↗

— Alfonso Ribeiro

#come #creative #creative process #director #enjoy

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#exercise #eye #had #i #kind

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory. ↗

— Georg Solti

#entire #i #learning #learning process #memory

One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change. ↗

— Peter Steele

#aspect #band #change #consistent #i

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ. ↗

— David Guetta

#dj #everything #first #i #make

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#artwork #best #big #big screen #books