Billboards Quote by Jonathan Katz

“In their simplicity and directness [neon signage is] a kind of urban iconography with which we can identify on many levels. — Rudi Stern”

— Philip Di Lemme

Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract homes and billboards, why picture that? The question sounds simple, but it implies a…

— Robert Adams

Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

— Donald A. Norman

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

— Marshall McLuhan

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and…

— Mark Rothko

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!

— Richard Rogers

As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of…

— David Swing

“Trees, skies, valleys mountains, seen through the rain-spotted windshield, were like a distorted, stippled landscape painted by a beginner who has not yet learned…

— Stella Benson

I think the commercial world is a lateral step from features. Some people see it as a step down, but I've never understood that.

— Theodore Melfi

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'

— Walker Evans

“The effect is both domestic and wild, equal parts geometric and chaotic. It's the visual signature of small, diversified farms that creates the picture-postcard…

— Barbara Kingsolver