Graphic Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

  Giorgetto Giugiaro

  Design, Architect, Artisans

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• Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Art, Writing, Engineering

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• I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Silly, Intelligent, Facts

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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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• I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Media, Feelings, Way

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• Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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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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• 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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• I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

  James Turrell

  Fire, Design, Atmosphere

  James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr

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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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• Inner beauty is for amateurs.

  Anne Taintor

  Design, Inner Beauty, Graphic Design

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• Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.

  J. J. Abrams

  Technology, White, Imagination

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One graphic element captured the essence of spring

  Nina Garcia

  Spring, Essence, Elements

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• There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Men, Design, Important

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• A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold to write. Three sorts of emotion produce great poetry - strong but quick emotions, seized upon for art as soon as they have passed, but not before they have passed ; strong and deep emotions in their remembrance along time after ; and false emotions, that is to say, emotions felt in the intellect. Not insincerity, but a translated sincerity, is the basis of all art.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Strong, Art, Selfish

  Fernando Pessoa (1988). “Always Astonished: Selected Prose”, p.53, City Lights Books

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• Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Drinking, Men, Blood

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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 other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

  Aaron Patzer

  Real, People, Design

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• Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.

  Jessica Helfand

  Eye, Light, Color

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• Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Thinking, Interesting, Perspective

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