Top 180 Graphic Quotes

My lips are a lot thinner than what makeup artists usually create, because they make them almost graphic.

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it’s got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection.

I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word ‘genre’ altogether. A good book is a good book.

The very first pieces of film that I did were really graphic designs translated to film. Graphic designs that moved. That was a very new notion.

As a master of graphic creation, as teacher, historian, and roving ambassador of comics, Jerry Robinson has ensured that future generations of talented kids will continue to imagine and then put marks on paper.

Paul Smith’s artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that’s always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

I certainly think we’re going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

I think readers’ imaginations are far more powerful than anything you can put on a page and, therefore, can conjure up graphic images for themselves, which I think you just have to nudge them towards.

Wearing colourful eyeliner in a graphic shape is the epitome of make-up as an accessory.

While writing ‘Bhavesh,’ I pretty much chewed up every single graphic novel I could get my hands on, so all the way from the entire ‘Batman’ series, Frank Miller’s ‘Batman,’ Ed Brubaker’s ‘Batman,’ Scott Snyder’s ‘Batman,’ all the way through ‘Daredevil’ to ‘100 Bullets,’ through so many other graphic novels.

I think people just want to be popular. So they’re going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they’re a little graphic, and I don’t think that’s so necessary.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

I don’t like ‘graphic novel.’ It’s a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating – it’s just a media type.

The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that’s in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

I’m really shy, man. I don’t really talk much. I just read, sit in my room and just read graphic novels because I don’t have many friends and many people that like to talk to me.

In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I’m feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them – simple but graphic.

There are certain values that, in my opinion, television has lost – various moral lines. How far you go in, say, revealing what people get up to on reality TV, and also graphic violence and swearing – the taboo of various swear-words is no longer there. It’s worrying.

The ‘Barnaby’ books were always intended to be graphic novels.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

My art teacher told me I’d be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn’t, because it was what my dad had done.

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.

We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.

This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

I’m kind of a graphic novel ambassador.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don’t necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it’s a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

Visaranai’ isn’t for those with weak hearts. It has a lot of graphic violence, and you need a strong stomach to watch the film.

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don’t want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I’d be very good at making documentaries eventually, but people don’t think of me for that, of course. But dialogue is something I know I can be good at.

Graphic tees are vibes. And I think they’re the basis of a lot of wardrobes, but that makes it challenging to distill what you’re brand means within a T-shirt.

‘Luther’ is absolutely a monster-of-the-week show. Although it’s post-watershed and is rendered in intense graphic novel-style images, it’s inspiration is not that different from ‘Doctor Who’ as in both cases you’ve got a trickster figure who fights the monster of the week and is eventually successful.

My personal style is very eclectic. I like graphic shapes and multiple layers.

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I’m drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years.

I’ve got an original graphic novel called ‘The Indian and the Bandit’ that I’m writing with a childhood friend.

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.

I love the music video for ‘Crash and Burn.’ I was very excited to work with the director to make something stylistic and graphic.

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.

I’m an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world – it’s really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I’m hooked.

I’ve anchored my share of live coverage over the years, including car chases. At MSNBC, I often prayed the ‘delay switch’ would actually work as promised. And, I frequently wondered what I would do or say if a violent and graphic incident accidentally aired on my broadcast.

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.

People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

People are so afraid to say the word ‘comic’. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to ‘graphic novel’ and that disappears.

I wanted to create Rouje to bring together my talented friends – photographers, stylists, graphic designers – in a project to create my universe and perfect dressing. I did not want to call the brand my name, because I have other projects, and this brand is the result of the work of several people and not just me.

I have been constantly working on the interiors of my homes in Delhi, Goa, Dubai, Mumbai, and the Red Chillies Building. I had been designing homes, too. Having a background in art, graphic design, and charcoal helped me in my work immensely.

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.