Graphic Quotes - Page 12

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

  M. C. Escher

  Heart, Artist, Soul

  "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.

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

  Biz Stone

  Creativity, Perfect, Design

  "Master of 'Biz' Returns to School" by Melissa Korn and Amir Efrati, The wall Street Journal, September 1, 2011.

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• If you do it right, it will last forever.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Forever, Lasts

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• Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

  Manly Hall

  Creating, Design, Patterns

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

  Allen Rosenberg

  Challenges, Solitude, Rowing

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• The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

  Warren Ellis

  Sex, Book, Bad Ass

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• The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.

  Christopher Alexander

  Mistake, Simple, Differences

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• Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it's nice to not have to dread introductions. "What you do for a living?" It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics, but not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it's not pornography, etc. And now people even of our parents' generation are familiar with the term "graphic novel," which is kind of amazing.

  Adrian Tomine

  Nice, Artist, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Brother, Book, Language

  Source: collider.com

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• I've made a poster at home. You know the iconic image of Che Guevara, the black and red graphic of his face? I think it's the perfect graphic, the best graphic ever made. I cut a Concorde out and put it over his head so it's Che looking up and the Concorde going by. Both are dead, maybe obsolete.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Home, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Grid systems in graphic design

  Josef Muller-Brockmann

  Design, Graphic Design, Grids

  Josef Müller-Brockmann (1995). “Josef Müller-Brockmann, designer: a pioneer of Swiss graphic design”, Princeton Architectural Press

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

  John Paul Stevens

  Religious, Squares, Atheism

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• I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to the graphic novel that Chris Clairmont did, which is the one Stryker comes from - God Loves, Man Kills, which is a brilliant story.

  Josh Helman

  Artist, Men, Stories

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• 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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Trying, One Day, Would Be

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that's respectable for adults to read.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Ghetto, Media

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.

  Charles Roven

  Psycho, Film, Scene

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• If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Blood, Worry

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

  Dustin Clare

  Film, Bigs, Graphic Novels

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• I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.

  Craig David

  Art, Morning, Thinking

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• The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character's voice and two, it's a way easier way to convey what the character's thinking by actually laying out what he's thinking.

  Eric Kripke

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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• We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Two, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you'd see how much I'm really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.

  Jack White

  Letting Go, Rooms, Saws

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Book, Kids

  "Anthony Bourdain swears he's a nerdy fanboy". Interview with Aaron Sagers, geekout.blogs.cnn.com. June 28, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jim Steranko

  Mean, Marketing, Bookstores

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• What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Gita, Formulas, Sermons

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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