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• Anyone who sets foot into the Watchmen universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered Watchmen to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Feet, Littles, Nervous

  "DC Entertainment Returning to 'Watchmen' with 7-Book Prequel Series (Exclusive Image)". Interview with Borys KIt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 1, 2012.

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• I've seen a tremendous shift especially in indie comics. I see all these young women who are out there creating. They're making these great web comics. Their graphic novels are getting published. They're making all this wonderful art. They're powerful. There's this vital energy about it that's really, really beautiful that years ago I knew existed but I didn't see so clearly.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Beautiful, Art, Powerful

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.

  Robert Kirkman

  Reading, Character, White

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• Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I suspect that over the next couple of years that impact will grow to the point where it will damage journalism's ability to do its job professionally, to check out information before publication, to be mindful of the necessity to publish and broadcast reliable, substantiated information.

  Marvin Kalb

  Jobs, Couple, Impact

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• I don't think a naked body is particularly shocking or interesting ... It's not the culture I was raised in. I was not brought up in the United States. I don't share the [attitude] that you can have graphic violence, but - God forbid - you see someone's nipples.

  Anna Paquin

  Attitude, Thinking, Interesting

  "'True Blood' Starlet Anna Paquin Is 'To Die For' In Nylon Magazine: Cover Story" by Amy Wilkinson, www.mtv.com. August 24, 2009.

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• The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Wassily Kandinsky, Vivian Endicott Barnett, Armin Zweite, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (1992). “Kandinsky: watercolors and drawings”, Prestel Pub

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• 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.

  Ellen Lupton

  Voice, Space, Diversity

  Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt Museum (1996). “Mixing Messages”, p.13, Princeton Architectural Press

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• When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

  Molly Crabapple

  Artist, Blood, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

  Bryan Talbot

  Creating, Different, Graphic Novels

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• Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.

  Peter Bilak

  Communication, Design, Graphic Design

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• So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.

  Sophia Bush

  Photography, Games, Perspective

  Interview with Matt Wiggins, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.

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• To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

  Dave Eggers

  Stories, Might, Way

  Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

  Shirley Jackson

  Stories, Village, Violence

  Shirley Jackson (2008). “The Lottery”, p.22, The Creative Company

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• By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely.

  Karl Buhler

  Children, Memories, Years

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• Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.

  Chip Kidd

  Race, Ideas, America

  Chip Kidd (2002). “The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history.
  Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots
  of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.

  Steven Heller

  Roots, Knowing, Design

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• Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics in Egypt, it first appeared in a recognizable form in the Medieval times as copper plates produced by the Catholic church to tell morality stories.

  Will Eisner

  Communication, Egypt, Ideas

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• 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.

  Cobie Smulders

  Men, Walking Dead, Fans

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• Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Eye, Design, Stories

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• Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.

  Tomi Ungerer

  Expression, Drawing, Black

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• For me accessories create and define a woman's personal style. The bag she carries, the watch on her wrist, her jewelry, her sunglasses, her shoes all define a look that is her signature. For Spring 2014, my accessory collections are about a clean, graphic boldness creating a new dimension redefining modern classics.

  Ralph Lauren

  Spring, Shoes, Creating

  FaceBook post by Ralph Lauren from Sep 14, 2013

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• Perhaps the most striking thing about the 2015 State of the Union address was not the president at the podium but the audience in the seats. The joint session of Congress listening to President Obama Tuesday night included 83 fewer Democrats than the group that heard Obama's first address in 2009 - 69 fewer Democrats in the House and 14 fewer in the Senate. The scene in the House Chamber was a graphic reminder of the terrible toll the Obama years have taken on Capitol Hill Democrats.

  Byron York

  Taken, Night, Years

  "Obama's disconnected, out of touch, in denial State of the Union" by Byron York, www.washingtonexaminer.com. January 21, 2015.

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• Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.

  Jan Tschichold

  Expression, Design, Asymmetry

  Jan Tschichold (1995). “The new typography: a handbook for modern designers”, Univ of California Pr

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• Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Expression, Drawing, Form

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• Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

  Michael Bierut

  Design, Fiction, Facts

  Michael Bierut (2012). “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design”, p.168, Chronicle Books

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