#visual

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. ↗

— James Laughlin

#beautiful #beautiful things #belong #book #concrete

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention. ↗

— James Laughlin

#agree #always #attention #bad #bad thing

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#been #i #keen #observer #person

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#arts #been #cartoonist #else #extended

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#been #fiction #i #influenced #information

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone? ↗

— Shelley Long

#did #hug #know #phone #visualise

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#dream #i #liked #nothing #period

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

— Yann Martel

#how #imagined #might #movie #out

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies. ↗

— Yann Martel

#cinema #complete #different #experience #i

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that. ↗

— Yann Martel

#describing #good #image #mind #reader