Pictorial Quotes

Pictorial Quote of the day

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

Imaginatively in a pictorial sense I was airborne.

Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space.

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout.

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

Playboy magazine is now doing a 'Women of Enron' pictorial spread. ... Apparently the only thing these women have left to shred is their dignity.