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
The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“2.22 What a picture represents it represents independently of its truth or falsity, by means of its pictorial form.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. — Harvey Dunn 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
...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who… — Charlton Ogburn 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
Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It… — Richard Selzer 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
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 battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war. — Winston Churchill 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
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