Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.
I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.
No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.
The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.
I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.
Image is an international language.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.