Art Director Quotes

• In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when in fact they only built part of it and were able to extend it using all of this fabulous technology.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Art, Technology, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

  Robert Benton

  Art, Directors, Photographer

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.

  Christophe Lemaire

  Art, Maturity, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Art, Editing, Design

  "Chud Rerun: Interview with Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Smilin' Jack Ruby, trouble.city. May 13, 2002.

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• I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript, sign the contract, and wait. It takes a while for the art director to find an illustrator and then the illustrator works on the sketches, and depending on those first round of sketches, it could be a few more months before you see a final illustration. I was surprised at how long it takes for all the pieces to come together.

  Renee Watson

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Over You, Directors

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"

  Biz Stone

  Art, New York, Jobs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

  Jane Haddam

  Art, Years, Editors

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• A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.

  Deborah Turbeville

  Girl, Art, Mistake

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• The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Art, Mean, Men

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning martial arts from us. But about a decade ago, Hollywood began bringing in a number of our action choreographers, including two from my own stunt crew, where they became martial arts directors. Now, a decade later, Hollywood has learned it all, so when you look at the action films they're making now, they all use our action, our martial arts, and then add to that their own technology which is ten times better than ours, and it has to leave us dumbfounded: how did they film that?

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Technology, Two

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• If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

  David Ogilvy

  Art, Winning, Awards

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• No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

  Joe McNally

  Dream, Photography, Art

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• Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at several agencies as a consultant, young photographers would bring me their portfolios and all the prints would be in the same standard proportions, either for the Leica or the Rolleiflex. Many times, by limiting themselves in this way, they missed the true potentialities of their photographs.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Photography, Art, Agency

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• Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks - once we came up with these key characters in a cloud of marijuana, the whole thing just came together. One of the things I'm really proud of is how much of a high-school yearbook it is in its look, so much so that Hunter Publishing had the art director, David Kaestle, and I come for years to their annual convention and do a little talk on how not to do a yearbook.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Girl, Art, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Simon Collinson, of digital publisher Canelo and über-cool Aussie mag The Lifted Brow, is our digital producer; Sarah Shin, Verso's comms director, is helping us out with press publicity; Soraya Gilanni, who mainly does production and set design for films and commercials, is our art director.

  Deborah Smith

  Art, Design, Directors

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

  Helmut Newton

  Art, Wife, Directors

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• Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his own house, it was always with bright colours. Very un-English!

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  Art, House, Understanding

  Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

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• We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

  Damian Loeb

  Art, Directors, Conform

  "Damian Loeb Brings Hyperrealism To Another Level (NSFW PHOTOS)", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2013.

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• I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which Andy had conceived of. I've never taken a picture since, not even with my phone! It just felt too Andy Warhol to keep going around town taking photographs. And I never really thought of doing anything with them after I left the magazine until this great Art Director Sam Shahid about for or five years ago asked where all of the old photos were.

  Bob Colacello

  Art, Taken, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New York, took under his wing. He taught me how to use typography more visually, to push against design norms and not to rely on preconceived notions of what something should look like. I learned that nuance is everything and to agonize over the details. I have Jerry to thank for driving plenty of people crazy over the years!

  John Butler

  Art, New York, Crazy

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• It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, Ideas

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• Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art directors who just don't know what' s what with Japanese culture, then pretty soon something's just passed through. I've been through many times where I've pointed out the incorrectness of so much of what's been done to a set.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Art, Character, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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