No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. — John Loengard Copy Share Image
Playboy magazine is now doing a 'Women of Enron' pictorial spread. ... Apparently the only thing these women have left to shred… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism. — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it -… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning.… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not… — Richard Billingham Copy Share Image
Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical,… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised… — Dore Ashton Copy Share Image
The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles). — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience. — Raoul Hausmann Copy Share Image
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing,… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image