Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Robert McKee
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Robert McAfee Brown
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! — Howard Hawks
We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings. — Vittorio Storaro
The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told. — Cindy Sherman
Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story. — Violante Placido
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images. — Steven Bochco
Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story — Saul Bass
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. — Robert McKee
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. — Walt Disney
Photography allows you to be a part of the action and document stories. It is a perfect extension of my body. I can take it pretty much anywhere and tell a story with a photograph. — Chris Burkard
What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story. — Wally Pfister
A winning marketing strategy requires a balance of practicality and storytelling. — Vladimer Botsvadze
Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself. — James Genn
It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out. — Robert Greenberg
Visualization Quotes
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. — David Attenborough
I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality. — Conor McGregor
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. — Massimo Vignelli
The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lover of all kinds.
Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you. — Jerry Gillies
When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough. — Vera Nazarian
Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture — KRS-One
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder. — Dan Gable
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. — Ferdinand Porsche
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. — John Tukey
What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning. — David Doubilet
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. — Jack Nicklaus
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner. — Massimo Vignelli
In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest. — Massimo Vignelli
Create your own visual style... Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance. — Dan Flavin
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
Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success. — Genevieve Behrend
At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big. — Dorian Yates
Storytell Quotes
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. — Dalai Lama
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battuta
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy
When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie. — Donald Glover
That's what we do, man, we're like storytellers. We tell you stories from the streets. Whether we did it before when we was young or we heard it from one of the homies telling us a tale of what he been through. It's all in having fun and creating a movie like vibe to tell a tale from the streets. — Kurupt
Traveling - It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. — Alan Rickman
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. — Ursula K. Le Guin
I'm an athlete, I'm funny, I'm creative, I can tell a story, I'm likable. — Logan Paul
I think Hollywood, I think America in general, they love redemption stories. — Logan Paul
Storyteller Quotes
With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened and alter it by angling them, and making them bigger or smaller, to give movement to the panels themselves. — Akira Toriyama
Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. — Lewis Howes
I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one thing. — Akira Toriyama
Design is thinking made visual.
I really like the story of Bardock, Goku's father. — Akira Toriyama
To me, an influencer must embody 2 critical skills, continuous learning and storytelling. — Jay Shetty
He is a good storyteller who can turn a man's ears into eyes. — Moroccan Proverbs
I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page. — Akira Toriyama
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?" — David Mamet
Our point of view, not our drawing skills or musical virtuosity or ability to tell a story. — Rick Rubin
I often speak publicly, and when I do, I also get to listen to other presenters. The most memorable are the ones that hit an emotional chord with a tight story and a punch line. No fluff. Keep it creative and concise. Greatness exists in quality, not quantity. — Lewis Howes
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it. — Brian De Palma
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. — Frank Darabont
That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have that feeling. It's part of being interested in notions of reality apart from storytelling. I don't know if it has something to do with having an art school education, which makes you aware of the way visuals speak, or makes you trust them more. — Jane Campion
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
I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely on to tell a scene or create the suspense that I need and create the emotion of a scene or a sequence. — James Wan
I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style. — Jack Kirby
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
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point. — Brian De Palma
Any platform that you use to tell stories helps you regardless of the medium regardless if they are bedtime stories that you tell your children or comics or film. Specifically what makes comics unique is that they are a storytelling device that forces you to think both visually and economically. Some might say you are limited by your imagination, but that is not true because someone has to draw it. — Jeph Loeb
Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling. — Peter Travers
I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done in comics and which pay homage to the many strands of comic and visual storytelling tradition. — Arvind Ethan David
I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear. — John Kahrs
When you boil it down, it's all a visual expression. In a sense we are all storytellers through what we wear, who we want to be, how we want people to perceive us. Life, people and the stories they consciously or unconsciously tell inspire me everyday. — Marc Forster
I have enough friends who are gamers. I actually enjoy watching them play because of the visuals and the storytelling of the games. I just love being able to go on an adventure and games are just so sophisticated now that you can just get lost in a world for 20 hours and just be someone else in a very visceral, emotional way. And that's just fascinating. — Bill Watterson
I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling. — Ruzwana Bashir
We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same. — Robert Rodriguez
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