Bedrock Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.

— Marie Calloway

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

— Louise Rosenblatt

Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Today it's normal. Photos used to be a support to the text, but we turned things around, reducing the words to a minimum.

— Franca Sozzani

Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing.

— Michael Salu

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

— Chuck Close

There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed…

— David Rose

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

— Tibor Kalman

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

— Paul Virilio

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

— Ric Ocasek

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison