Pictorial Quotes

46 quotes by 41 authors

...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who view nature with… — Charlton Ogburn
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth… — Marc Chagall
Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout. — Jules Olitski
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he… — Yves Klein
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to… — Edward Weston
It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a… — Edward Weston
The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence… — Alexey Brodovitch
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression… — Camille Paglia
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there — Frank Stella
The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with… — Georges Braque
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through… — Alva Myrdal
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound… — Clement Greenberg
Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not… — Ted Nelson
The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say â€˜Aaaaah,â€™ with five vowels when they see it.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures… — Otto Neurath
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where… — Edsger Dijkstra
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. — Johan Huizinga
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. — Jean-Jacques Annaud
Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish… — Francis Parker Yockey

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