Graphic Quotes

“Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you do it right, it will last forever.

— Massimo Vignelli

“The graphic below shows how and where they fit.”

— Vishen Lakhiani

Grid systems in graphic design

— Josef Muller-Brockmann

One graphic element captured the essence of spring

— Nina Garcia

I gravitate toward floral and graphic prints.

— Brad Goreski

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.

— Gillian Flynn

If you jump, you best jump far.

— Tori Amos

What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

— Jonathan Hickman

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

— Hugh Hopper

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

— Anonymous

Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

— Saul Bass

I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me.

— Travis Beacham

I didnt think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

— Stefan Sagmeister

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

— William Klein

I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart…

— Bruce Willis

The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular…

— John Paul Stevens

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…

— Sufjan Stevens

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

— Michelle MacLaren

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them…

— Alan Moore

Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic"…

— Charles Portis

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense.…

— Guillermo del Toro

For one thing, I don't teach graphic design ; I teach people to find their own strengths. Second, I don't hold back…

— Morteza Momayez

I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall…

— Afrojack

I beat my children daily, with a shoe, because I don't want them to grow up fairies. At 9 p.m. I promptly…

— Thom Yorke

Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to…

— Will Barnet

An electrician isn't an opinion former, but a graphic designer is. My argument is that all graphic designers hold high levels of…

— Neville Brody

I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And particularly as I got more…

— Warren MacKenzie

Now I'm in nonfiction. To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with…

— Dave Eggers

As I got older, my ambitions changed and I wanted to be a graphic designer. In form five, I did Art for…

— St. Lucia

It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking…

— Michael Bierut

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right…

— Murray Gell-Mann

I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how…

— Dean Spade

Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents - are viewed…

— Marian Bantjes

There were [in Wilson] a lot of clues in it that you don't normally get, you know, normally you use your imagination…

— Woody Harrelson

A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the…

— Fernando Pessoa

By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body…

— Karl Buhler

Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does…

— Heidi Julavits

I don't think it's possible to teach a person to be an artist. But yet, I'm here, and I suppose this is…

— Phoebe Gloeckner