Vision Quotes - Page 55

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

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 would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

I have a vision for living. It's about elements of style. It's about all the things that I love, that I believe in.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's.

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Any kind of vision needs people.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.