Graphic Quotations

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.

I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.

'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.

This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers.

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

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

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

'Luther' is absolutely a monster-of-the-week show. Although it's post-watershed and is rendered in intense graphic novel-style images, it's inspiration is not that different from 'Doctor Who' as in both cases you've got a trickster figure who fights the monster of the week and is eventually successful.

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

I'm not sure how writers and artists of other graphic novels join forces, but this is how the process worked for me: First, I produced my final script. Then, Mark Siegel, my editor at First Second, assembled information about 10 or 12 different artists and had me look through their portfolios to see what kind of styles appealed to me.

My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good at making documentaries eventually, but people don't think of me for that, of course. But dialogue is something I know I can be good at.

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.

For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.

I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.'

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it's got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection.

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic.

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.

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.

I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world.

Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

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

A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely.

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.

Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether in print or on film, serve the same function for their audience as Golden Age movie stars did for theirs: they create glamour.

When we got it back from the graphic artists, none of us noticed that it made it a million million.

With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design.

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We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.

There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and that's what makes them in some ways good fans.

Many shows this season ... had gruesome shots of women being brutalized and terrorized in very graphic and extended ways,

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minted's community votes to tell us what to sell.

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.

People will be told it features graphic content and adult language,

One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.

I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.

I am thrilled to have Kevin Smith as both an actor in Southland Tales as well as having his involvement in the prequel graphic novels for Southland Tales. The novels will give the die-hard fans more of an understanding of the back-story leading up the film's theatrical release.

Imagine your sales department needs some help with graphic design.

I had one or two unpleasant occurrences. I don't need to get any more graphic than that.

I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturday afternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of 'Watchmen,' his graphic novel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse.

For years, V for Vendetta has been a cornerstone of the growing graphic novel category. Having the movie help drive sales to bestseller levels will continue to attract new readers to graphic novels.

I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved.

He was the most sought-after graphic illustrator in New York City. He was making $150,000 a year, which is like a half-million now.

We talk about the tasks of grief. Emotionally, we have to acknowledge the loss. The second task is to experience the pain. What happens when you are going through a trial, you are still in the pain. Hearing the graphic testimony is like taking a razor blade and slitting open a scar. Initially, with a shocking death like that, you go numb right away, and a year later, you hear the details, you are more aware.

'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.

It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

Our class and the designers have been working really hard. We learn a lot from this program, and it's a lot of in-depth event planning, graphic design, and fashion design.

Over the last few days, the world has finally woken up, but it took graphic images of dying children for this to happen,

Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate.

Our practice is to not move material that is known to be offensive - not just the photographs under discussion now, but images of graphic genitalia, extreme close-ups of body parts, images showing offensive language, etc..

Some people are using this not to copy the picture, but as a starting point when talking to a graphic designer.

Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.

Matt and I are more intense, Ramin is the calm, collected one, the technical and graphic genius. All of us are entrepreneurial and work great together. We each offer something different and important to the task at hand. We have been able to utilize technology to make a virtual work force - Ramin works and lives in Ottawa.

Margo is nothing short of an icon in the graphic design industry. She is high energy, positive, unpretentious, open minded and always on. Our clients benefit from her creative intelligence every day. She is great to work with.

I think readers' imaginations are far more powerful than anything you can put on a page and, therefore, can conjure up graphic images for themselves, which I think you just have to nudge them towards.

I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.

That's translated into higher salaries, particularly for multimedia professionals. We've seen an increase in demand for interactive designers, graphic designers, and for people with Internet and Flash skills.

I work very long on each book, sometimes two or three months, because I think all the twelve illustrations have to be nice pieces of graphic art.

I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.

Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.

You know, I kind of fixated on D.H. Lawrence at one point. So I kind of look at what I'm into. Sometimes I'm looking at visual information -- very graphic -- and other times I'm kind of deep into text.

While at times the language used was sexual and graphic in nature, the relationship was one of complete fantasy, involving only protected speech.

Virtual proofing continues to be a swiftly changing technology and we're committed to providing our customers with the latest technologies and tools. Remote Director 3.2, along with the JDF enabled automation, answers the needs of today's graphic arts community, as we continue to listen and work with our partners in developing additional enhancements that will give them an edge in their business.

Today's witness, Kenneth W. Starr, wrote the tawdry, salacious and unnecessarily graphic referral that he delivered to us in September with so much drama and fanfare. And now the majority members of this committee have called that same prosecutor forward to testify in an unprecedented desperation effort to breathe new life into a dying inquiry.

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.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.

The outpouring of money and aid has not been as full. The graphic nature of the tsunami seemed to really capture people's attention.

This tragedy serves as a graphic reminder of the need for the parties to respect humanitarian law and provide security for all civilians, including the staff of international and non-governmental organizations active in the region,

With comics, you don't have to worry so much about budgetary constraints. In film and television, however fanciful you want to be, someone can come up to you and go, 'Okay, this is going to cost X amount of dollars, and we only have so many days to film this.' With graphic novels, you can have that alien invasion you've always wanted to see.

When she went into graphic detail about what he did to that little girl, I just lost it.

The graphic panels will illustrate through photographs and text the significant periods and events in time.

The graphic nature and wide availability of these games should disturb all of us, whether or not we are parents, ... I am proud to sign legislation that will protect children from this kind of content.

The graphic is generating a lot of information, a lot of calls,

There is something so graphic seeing sludge coating the trees and piles of that stuff on the land. It arouses fear and suspicion.

This was the product that inspired people in graphic design, and students, and other creative people. It was the whole idea of computers not just being something you would see in the office.

We went as high as we could. We were actually putting graphic effects in here you couldn't see on any graphics card commercially available when we were working on the game.

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.

We think it makes constitutional sense and common sense to protect our children from exposure to senseless, graphic violence that has no purpose other than to appeal to baser instincts.

Very often, government agencies create graphical information rather than just text to explain different services, whether it's how to apply for a permit or how to use the 911 system. But the more graphic it is, the more speed and capacity you need. Up until now, our citizens just haven't had that. So we see lots of possibilities for public education.

We are very pleased with our new graphic identity. Ryan Partnership has done a terrific job of creating a clean, bold, professional look which clearly conveys our commitment to philanthropic ideals and we are proud to introduce it.

Every graphic that we make is a movie. We don't make still graphics any more. Backgrounds move. Heads animate. There's always motion in a graphic.

Five would take care of all the graphic novels ? but there's new material that I'm writing for the second one.

There will be set modifications and different graphic elements from what we do.

It was a kind of graphic that would grab you. If you looked at it, and thought 'Is this anything I would want to get involved in?' I think you'd say no.

I've anchored my share of live coverage over the years, including car chases. At MSNBC, I often prayed the 'delay switch' would actually work as promised. And, I frequently wondered what I would do or say if a violent and graphic incident accidentally aired on my broadcast.

So that after people have worked at Homeboy Industries they can go out and find a job with a silk-screening business, with a graphic business, with restaurants, with bakeries,

SONY have had a graphic workstation business; they understand polygon rendering and have special customers that demand it.

Protecting our children must be everyone's top priority, ... This is a common-sense law that provides parents with the tools they need to protect their children from the effects of violence and graphic adult content.

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

After working in the corporate world of advertising and graphic design, I know how hard the average person works, because I've been there.

Something in the last few months has got them filming the most intimate, graphic attacks -- like up-close and personal,

Animation has become part of the way we tell stories online. It's an option we use to give more credibility and reality to the piece. We're always thinking about making the story animated if we can, and more interesting to the readers. I think it has changed the way we tell stories dramatically. You can't just copy a news graphic and paste it on the Web page and expect it to engage the reader.