Best Pictorial Quotes

46 Pictorial quotes by 41 unique authors

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an… — Hans Hofmann
Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and… — Gloria Steinem
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective… — Gerhard Richter
Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conceived… — Richard Selzer
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form. — Stephen Gardiner
Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care… — Paul Strand
The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself. — Pablo Picasso
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and… — Paul Klee
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by… — Paul Klee
No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what… — Roger Fry
Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the… — Yves Klein
You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly… — Gerhard Richter
The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art. — Walter J. Phillips
I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some… — Wayne Thiebaud
Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial… — Hokusai
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. — John Ruskin
No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily… — Edgar Allan Poe
The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war. — Winston Churchill
The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but above… — Neil MacGregor
So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it… — Adrian Lyne
I definitely had a lot of photoshoots, Playboy is not something I can talk about, but is something that is in the works would not… — Kim Kardashian

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