Graphic Quotes

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
Bob Dylan

Life, Work, Design

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
George Santayana

Design, Paradise, Hobbies

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
Stephen Fry

Friends, Knew, Seen

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber

Sense, American, Getting

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.
Brad Bird

Love, Kids, Show

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
Iain Duncan Smith

Happened, Clear, Changed

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

Love, Design, Around

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

Story, Might, Involved

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.
Tim Allen

Life, Love, Artist

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
Patrick Stewart

Success, Career, Film

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Character, Sex, Two

To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.
Dario Argento

Good, Money, Strong

When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.
Joel Silver

Time, Read, View

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
Laurie Anderson

Books, Hear, Visual

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.
Olivia Thirlby

Challenge, Big, Moments

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.
Denise Mina

Different, Film, Closer

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.
Denise Mina

Good, Expect, Rules

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Paul Klee

Everything, Become, Around

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
Aaron Eckhart

Matter, Violence, Nobody

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.
David Coverdale

Art, Teacher, Design

I wear the same thing every day. I always pack two black jackets, loads of black T-shirts, loads of white jeans. I feel a little fresh and glamorous and graphic.
Michael Kors

Black, Two, Same

If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
Warwick Davis

Character, Rather, Next

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.
John Kricfalusi

Cool, Bad, Able

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.
Aisha Tyler

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
Ted Rall

Together, Put, Novel

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall

Good, Long, Before

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
Ted Rall

Great, Anyone, Written

Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
Anita Hill

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
Darren Aronofsky

Great, Books, Comic

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
John Wesley Powell

Art, Cannot, Language

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