Pictorial Quotes - Page 2

• ...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who view nature with detachment, for whom nature's appeal is primarily pictorial, classicists as opposed to romanticists, perhaps. On such a day, one is usually excited, physically exhilarated, mentally stimulated. Only not much is left for the imagination.

  Charlton Ogburn

  Fall, Autumn, Views

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• There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature. For they would then relapse into a dreary and ultimately dangerous state of half-education, in which they would be easily satisfied by crude semi-pictorial approximations of the strip cartoon and by the abundant supply of degenerate literature which destroys, rather than promotes, a capacity to face the problems of the world with skill and courage

  A. D. Patel

  Skills, People, Cartoon

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• Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Eye, Mind, Violence

  "The Myth Makers: European and Latin American Writers" by V. S. Pritchett, (p. 178), 1979.

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• Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract - the idea that painting can go beyond what is seen. What we found is that, increasingly, painting became about paint, its own material truth. When I'm talking about the way that we look at others and the way that we see ourselves increasingly, looking at others becomes its own material truth.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Talking, Ideas

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud.

  Richard Holt Hutton

  Plato, Mistake, Cutting

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• I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Trying, Landscape, Way

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• Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

  Hokusai

  Years, Age, Sketching

  Hokusai Katsushika, Kojiro Tomita (1957). “Day and Night in the Four Seasons: Sketches by Hokusai, 1760-1849”

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• We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

  Naum Gabo

  Space, Depth, Plastic

  Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”

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• Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

  Harvey Dunn

  Art, Faithful, Copying

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• Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in the sense of the Renaissance perspective, but on the contrary (and in absolute denial of this doctrine) by the creation of forces in the sense of push and pull . Nor is depth created by tonal gradation (another doctrine of the academician which, at its culmination, degraded the use of color to a mere function of expressing dark and light).

  Hans Hofmann

  Dark, Color, Light

  Lowery Stokes Sims, Hans Hofmann, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1999). “Hans Hofmann in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Logic, Language, Form

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.11, Psychology Press

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• I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way in which the American landscape is apprehended by today's viewers.

  John Pfahl

  Photography, Art, Color

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• Playboy magazine is now doing a 'Women of Enron' pictorial spread. ... Apparently the only thing these women have left to shred is their dignity.

  Jay Leno

  Magazines, Dignity, Playboy

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• Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Males, Western Culture

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when they see it. It is something you would like to hang on the wall. The french word ‘photogenique’ defines it better than anything in English. It is a picture which must have quality, drama, and it must, in addition, be as good technically as you can possible make it.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Wall, Drama

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• Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures from year to year. In addition, the advertising business operates with optical signals as well as representations. Exhibitions and museums are indeed offspring of this visual hustle.

  Otto Neurath

  Men, Museums, Illustration

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• Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, Osmosis, Design

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• It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, School, Race

  Edward Weston, Leslie Squyres Calmes, Willard Van Dyke (1992). “The letters between Edward Weston and Willard Van Dyke”, Center for Creative Photography

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• The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.

  Dennis Oppenheim

  Ideas, Giving, Photograph

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• The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.

  Clement Greenberg

  Profound, Texture, Answers

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.157, Beacon Press

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• The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Photography, Views, Feelings

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• The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by which man affirms his mental scheme, and these symbols, be they pictorial or mathematical, a fable or formula, will reflect the same changes.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Men, Fables

  "How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day". Book by Michael J. Gelb (p. 127), October 21, 2009.

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• I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Men, Long

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• Films are born from screenplays and they are guided by words. They are born very limited and there is no space for real creation: graphic creation, pictorial creation, or audiovisual creation. If we really want to use the art of animation with all its strength, we have to rethink the processes by which it's made because the medium is the message.

  Alex Abreu

  Art, Real, Space

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not the primary intention. My intention is to make the best pictorial image I can.

  Richard Billingham

  Doe, Documentaries, Facts

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