Graphic Quotes - Page 2

• Practice is a shared history of learning. Practice is conversational. 'Communities of Practice' are groups of people who share a concern (domain) or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better (practice) as they interact regularly (community).

  Etienne Wenger

  Passion, Practice, People

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• I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

  Hugh Hopper

  Stuck, Mathematician, Representation

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• I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Color, Ideas, Design

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Book, Thinking, Kind

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

  Ted Rall

  Thinking, Graphic Novels, Written

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

  Ted Rall

  Writing, Thinking, Together

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

  Ted Rall

  Writing, Skills, Long

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• 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

  Sex, Book, Character

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

  Brad Bird

  Kids, Anime, Stuff

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• But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, Ghost Stories, Devil

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• No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it.

  Michael Bierut

  Authenticity, Designer, One Love

  Michael Bierut (2007). “79 Short Essays on Design”, p.167, Princeton Architectural Press

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• Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Writing, Form, Inseparable

  W. J. T. Mitchell (1995). “Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation”, p.95, University of Chicago Press

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• One graphic element captured the essence of spring

  Nina Garcia

  Spring, Essence, Elements

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Hate, Publishing House, Novelists

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• If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

  Paul Rand

  Design, Caves, Logic

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• Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

  Paul Saffo

  Butterfly, Jewels, Data

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• Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Fun, Writing, Artist

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• There are people on the ratings board and so froth who don't want certain scenes in the film. There are people who come up and say, "What graphic love scenes. I think, How can a love scene be graphic? Have you seen Total Recall? In this R-rated movie you see a man who you've seen being in love with and sleeping with this fabulous woman shoot her right through the head. "Consider this a divorce" is supposed to be the funniest line in the movie.

  Laura Dern

  Sleep, Divorce, Being In Love

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• I had no special training at all; I am completely self-taught. I don’t fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is – someone who designs projects to make people happy. That’s his purpose.

  Toru Iwatani

  Art, Strong, Self

  "Toru Iwatani, 1986 PacMan Designer". Interview with Susan Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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• The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer

  Aaron Betsky

  Floating, World, Designer

  Aaron Betsky, Erik Adigard (2000). “Architecture must burn”, Gingko Pr Inc

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

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Thinking, Sept 11, Given

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