Graphic Quotes
222 Graphic quotes by 178 unique authors
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are…
— John Wesley Powell
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Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic…
— Jessica Helfand
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Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing…
— Jessica Helfand
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The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning.
— Katherine McCoy
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It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and…
— M. William Phelps
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I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read that seven Czechs…
— Hans Frank
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What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances -…
— Tibor Kalman
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Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way…
— Rick Poynor
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You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets…
— Al Hirschfeld
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Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of the life of…
— Brian Evenson
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If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do…
— Diane Ackerman
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The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and our relationships as…
— Unknown Author
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The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies…
— Alfie Kohn
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Tradition, history and respect; that kind of qualities I admire, that I want to see preserved. Time is the only commodity that matters. Being successful…
— Randy Pausch
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Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by…
— John Maeda
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Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.
— John Maeda
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The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.
— John Maeda
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Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions…
— Unknown Author
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If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.
— Eric Gill
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Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
— Saint Augustine
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Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents - are viewed as beings who…
— Marian Bantjes
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People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our…
— George Orwell
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The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.
— Rajneesh
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Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.
— John Maeda
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The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has…
— Gustave Flaubert
Who Wrote These Graphic Quotes
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