Graphic Quotes - Page 6

• I was studying graphic design at the time, when negative scanners and all that stuff was coming out, and you could do it all in your apartment. So I would shoot, make contact sheets, scan all the cool negatives, and make all these zines and books of my photos to give to my friends. I was really into zine- and bookmaking from skate culture.

  Ryan McGinley

  Book, Zines, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the same classes, but the photographers just went straight into photography.

  Ryan McGinley

  Photography, Art, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Ryan McGinley

  Photography, School, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Kids, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.hbook.com

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

  Walter Hill

  Book, Fans, Comic

  Source: collider.com

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• Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

  John Maeda

  Design, Students, Graduates

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• Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

  Saul Bass

  Reality, Design, Logos

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• I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.

  Michael Schwab

  Artist, Drawing, Design

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• Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.

  Carolyn Cassady

  Moving, Book, Cities

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Expression, Order, Analysis

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• Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

  Alan Kay

  Design, Graphic Design

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• I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. I’d want it to be very graphic – about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but I’m scared to do it by myself. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. I’m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Dark, Thinking, Light

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• I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, its like a splinter in your mind and you cant get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called The Hunger Games.

  Dayo Okeniyi

  Moving, School, Years

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• The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.

  Alvin Lustig

  Life, Relationship, Nature

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• To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

  Paul Klee

  Thinking, Numbers, Giving

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• The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not so much that it happened relatively late in human history, but that it happened at all.

  Jack Goody

  Imagination, Sound, Late

  Jack Goody (1975). “Literacy in Traditional Societies”, p.38, Cambridge University Press

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• It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different. The elegance of a mathematical formula is that it explains a phenomenon beautifully, with no parts left over. In design, elegance is more readily perceived as a property of product than of process. If we had more elegant theories, we might look to design for more than elegance.

  Ralph Caplan

  Design, Important, Might

  Ralph Caplan (2006). “Cracking the Whip: Essays on Design and Its Side Effects”, Fairchild Books

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• I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Country, Art, Strong

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• Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

  Chip Kidd

  Art, Ideas, Giving

  Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Humor is all about timing.

  Steven Heller

  Design, Graphic Design, Timing

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• Tradition, history and respect; that kind of qualities I admire, that I want to see preserved. Time is the only commodity that matters. Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well; managing your time well makes you successful. Goals, Priorities, and Planning. Why am I doing this? What is the goal? Why will I succeed? What happen if I chose not to do it? 'Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement'.

  Randy Pausch

  Successful, Goal, Design

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• The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and our relationships as a constant unfolding.

  Tim Girvin

  Dream, Imagination, Design

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• You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.

  Al Hirschfeld

  Rain, Artist, Clouds

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• What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. I’m interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are.

  Tibor Kalman

  Communication, Thinking, Skills

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• I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself: If I put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper for such posters.

  Hans Frank

  Differences, Prague, Example

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