Graphic Quotes
Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.
To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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.
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.
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.
I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.
Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate
There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.
What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.
It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.
It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace.
I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.
Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.
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.
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.
A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making.
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.
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.
My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels.
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.
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.
Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.
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.
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.
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.
There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.
But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.
