Graphic Quotes

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. (James Thurber)
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. View quote
Darren Aronofsky
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. View quote
Matthew Vaughn
You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that. View quote
William Scranton
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing. View quote
M. C. Escher
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 of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. View quote
William Gibson
I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size. View quote
Alan Moore
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff. View quote
Brad Bird
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 instrument of a remote will. View quote
Paul Klee
The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers. View quote
Walter Hill
I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel. (Walter Hill)
The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels. View quote
Janet Evanovich
Logos are the graphic extension of the internal realities of a company. View quote
Saul Bass
Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design. View quote
Anton Corbijn
You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character. View quote
Robert Kirkman
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 going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong. View quote
Paul Rand
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. View quote
Biz Stone
I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds. View quote
Tobe Hooper
I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter. View quote
Aaron Eckhart
Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects. View quote
Anita Hill
I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more. (Cobie Smulders)
I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.' View quote
Dayo Okeniyi
To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects. View quote
Dario Argento
People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of Watchmen as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form. View quote
Dave Gibbons
I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that. View quote
Gabriel Basso