Graphic Quotes

222 Graphic quotes by 178 unique authors

I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy. — Michael Easton
I think with something like 'Watchmen' you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper… — Dave Gibbons
Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. — Leonard Baskin
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of… — Edward Weston
A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement… — Walter J. Phillips
The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite… — Vladimir Lenin
Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does four portraits, so… — Heidi Julavits
I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use… — ASAP Ferg
Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and… — Stephen Fry
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace… — William Gibson
My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community,… — Grimes
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs,… — Bob Dylan
To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel,… — Dave Eggers
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient… — Paul Klee
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and… — Alan Moore
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some… — James Patterson
Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition… — Paul Rand
If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is… — Paul Rand
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. — George Santayana
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent… — Marjane Satrapi
I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way… — Marjane Satrapi
I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics...… — Marjane Satrapi
I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like… — Marjane Satrapi
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator,… — Marjane Satrapi
People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly.… — Marjane Satrapi

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