Quotes about Graphic

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. Votes: 6

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. Votes: 4

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. Votes: 4

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form. Votes: 4

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. Votes: 4

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. Votes: 4

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate. Votes: 4

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book. Votes: 3

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact. Votes: 3

Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Votes: 3

Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe. Votes: 3

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner. Votes: 3

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas. Votes: 3

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take. Votes: 3

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box. Votes: 3

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked. Votes: 3

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen. Votes: 3

People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere. Votes: 3

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas. Votes: 3

Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism. Votes: 3

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine. Votes: 3

Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I think they can see it all right there. It's like, "Here's what the movie looks like. Votes: 3

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant. Votes: 3

Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers completely miss that aspect of the "art." Some are completely satisfied with just making things pretty, without taking the communication element into consideration. Votes: 3

An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor. Votes: 3

Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads Votes: 3

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both. Votes: 3

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations. Votes: 2

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. Votes: 2

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design. Votes: 2

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram. Votes: 2

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life. Votes: 2

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design. Votes: 2

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. Votes: 2

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff Votes: 2

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words. Votes: 2

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that. Votes: 2

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable. Votes: 2

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. Votes: 2

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. Votes: 2

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual. Votes: 2

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. Votes: 2

The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre. Votes: 2

The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good. Votes: 2

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. Votes: 2

I wear the same thing every day. I always pack two black jackets, loads of black T-shirts, loads of white jeans. I feel a little fresh and glamorous and graphic. Votes: 2

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through. Votes: 2

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds. Votes: 2

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for. Votes: 2

Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects. Votes: 2

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling. Votes: 2

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose. Votes: 2

I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody. Votes: 2

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter. Votes: 2

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever. Votes: 2

To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects. Votes: 2

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. Votes: 2

Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda. Votes: 2

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development Votes: 2

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind. Votes: 2

My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good at making documentaries eventually, but people don't think of me for that, of course. But dialogue is something I know I can be good at. Votes: 2

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them. Votes: 2

Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether in print or on film, serve the same function for their audience as Golden Age movie stars did for theirs: they create glamour. Votes: 2

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong. Votes: 2

Playing Destroyo, who was sort of a Silence Of The Lambs type character, I'd say I was wearing about 50 pounds of rubber and foam rubber and makeup. But I had no idea who The Tick was. I'm not a big graphic-novel guy. I don't even know if The Tick was a graphic novel! Votes: 2

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well. Votes: 2

Grid systems in graphic design Votes: 0

One graphic element captured the essence of spring Votes: 0

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically. Votes: 0

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels. Votes: 0

Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design. Votes: 0

The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer Votes: 0

I didnt think that personal style had much value in graphic design. Votes: 0

Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company. Votes: 0

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff. Votes: 0

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas. Votes: 0

Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience. Votes: 0

One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.' Votes: 0

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling. Votes: 0

What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula. Votes: 0

Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal. Votes: 0

The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers. Votes: 0

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel. Votes: 0

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink. Votes: 0

I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing. Votes: 0

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder. Votes: 0

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels. Votes: 0

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors. Votes: 0

Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication. Votes: 0

I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much. Votes: 0

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form. Votes: 0

Sqwaak!" from Fletcher, the environmental crime fighting parrot in The Big Belch graphic novel by Kay Wood. Votes: 0

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. Votes: 0

A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making. Votes: 0

Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration. Votes: 0

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed. Votes: 0

The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning. Votes: 0

Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper. Votes: 0

My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels... Votes: 0

No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it. Votes: 0

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one. Votes: 0

Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the "imagetext" incarnate Votes: 0

I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend. Votes: 0

Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge. Votes: 0

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design. Votes: 0

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. Votes: 0

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel. Votes: 0

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side. Votes: 0

I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy. Votes: 0

As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation. Votes: 0

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel. Votes: 0

I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world. Votes: 0

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel. Votes: 0

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading. Votes: 0

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic. Votes: 0

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world. Votes: 0

I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre. Votes: 0

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects. Votes: 0

I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them. Votes: 0

The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference. Votes: 0

You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium. Votes: 0

I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger. Votes: 0

There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression. Votes: 0

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics. Votes: 0

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well. Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. CNN has a graphic up , "Trump: Some human activity linked to climate change." Votes: 0

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought. Votes: 0

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that. Votes: 0

I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things! Votes: 0

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue. Votes: 0

I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing. Votes: 0

When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that. Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. CNN has a graphic up , "Trump: Some human activity linked to climate change." Votes: 0

I didn't go to school for fashion, I didn't have anybody to teach me anything about fashion - that's all I knew how to do, graphic design. Votes: 0

Like O'Rielly, we'll grab the most important word of each sentence... 'The' for example. Also, I'll say, 'I'm angry,' and the graphic will read, 'Colbert angry. Votes: 0

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid. Votes: 0

I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics. Votes: 0

Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility. Votes: 0

A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose. Votes: 0

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words. Votes: 0

For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood. Votes: 0

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French. Votes: 0

I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that. Votes: 0

Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims. Votes: 0

I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more. Votes: 0

Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading. Votes: 0

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer. Votes: 0

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer. Votes: 0

A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely. Votes: 0

When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other. Votes: 0

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision. Votes: 0

Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading. Votes: 0

When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern. Votes: 0

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic. Votes: 0

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth. Votes: 0

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi. Votes: 0

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death. Votes: 0

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like. Votes: 0

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag. Votes: 0

I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturday afternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of 'Watchmen,' his graphic novel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse. Votes: 0

In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste. Votes: 0

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.' Votes: 0

I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects. Votes: 0

There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine. Votes: 0

I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea. Votes: 0

There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and that's what makes them in some ways good fans. Votes: 0

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same. Votes: 0

People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears. Votes: 0

The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver. Votes: 0

I think with something like 'Watchmen' you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story. Votes: 0

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit. Votes: 0

People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form. Votes: 0

People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of Watchmen as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form. Votes: 0

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me. Votes: 0

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way. Votes: 0

Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores. Votes: 0

It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways. Votes: 0

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type. Votes: 0

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out. Votes: 0

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way. Votes: 0

I think readers' imaginations are far more powerful than anything you can put on a page and, therefore, can conjure up graphic images for themselves, which I think you just have to nudge them towards. Votes: 0

I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a function. But once I started on that, I realized that was really boring. Votes: 0

The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so it's really graphic and visual. And the French were something else. Votes: 0

Woven through Timothy J. Clark's paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions which intrigue beyond the beautifully-painted forms of the subjects. Votes: 0

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures. Votes: 0