Graphic Quotes - Page 8

• Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

  John Maeda

  Teaching, Design, Needs

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• You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Achievement, Nervous

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue.

  Toyin Odutola

  Kids, Style, Vagabonds

  "Toyin Odutola and the Public Struggle". Interview with Julie Bramowitz, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2013.

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• If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth.

  Boake Carter

  Military, War, People

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• I won't read a new graphic comic novel until the writer has completed the entire series. I got burned a few times when I got turned on to a book, plowed through it only to find out the author was in the middle of writing the next.

  Nick Offerman

  Book, Writing, Next

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe that our summer forays are different, but literature is literature, and unfortunately snobbery is snobbery.

  Colum McCann

  Summer, Book, Reading

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• The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so it's really graphic and visual. And the French were something else.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Artist, Cinema, Movement

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

  Jessica Walsh

  Inspiration, Work You Love, Design

  "Sagmeister & Walsh interview and recent work". Designboom interview, www.designboom.com.

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• I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Objectivity, Designer, Visuals

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Just look at the cinema itself: It's comprised of lots of movies about graphic novels, and if you're not 20 years old and wearing a cape and a mask and white, you're out of business. Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

  Danny Glover

  Years, White, Creating

  "Black power mixtape co-producer Danny Glover opens up". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.pbs.org. February 7, 2012.

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• The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

  John Maeda

  Real, Eye, Differences

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2009

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• I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.

  Bruce Willis

  Heart, Thinking, Roots

  Source: collider.com

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• In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Teacher, Reading, Enemy

  "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.

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• I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Glasses, Drawing, Missing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers completely miss that aspect of the "art." Some are completely satisfied with just making things pretty, without taking the communication element into consideration.

  Jeff Fisher

  Art, Communication, Writing

  Source: justcreative.com

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• To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

  Cate Blanchett

  Way, Designer, Painter

  Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on sports and community issues. There are many more jobs I've done in my day, I can't remember them all.

  Franny Armstrong

  Sports, Jobs, Artist

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• I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical.

  Dean Spade

  War, Teaching, Reading

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Book, Reading, Hard Work

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

  Matthea Harvey

  Artist, Drawing, Graphic Novels

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.

  Matthea Harvey

  Thinking, World, Form

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Today, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more venues for them to see their work in print. In the 1950s, when the comic industry hit an all-time low, there was no place for women to go. Today, because of graphic novels, there's no place for aspiring women cartoonists to go but forward.

  Trina Robbins

  Drawing, All Time Low, Males

  Trina Robbins (2013). “Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896–2010”, p.174, Fantagraphics Books

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• My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Art, Real, Expression

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• People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Men, Thinking, People

  "How to film a graphic novel". June 16, 2011.

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• Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

  Jon Scieszka

  Book, Reading, Adventure

  "National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Must Go!" by Jon Scieszka, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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