Quotes of: Graphic-novels Keyword

'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 ...

Neil Cross

Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it. The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as literature and another as genre vanishes with the distinction. Every readable novel can give true pleasure. Every nove...

Ursula K. Le Guin

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

Anton Corbijn

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

George Santayana

We tried to make the prosaic attractive without using the tired clichés of false glamour. You might say we tried to convey the attractiveness of reality, as opposed to the glitter of a never-never land. —Cipe Pineles

Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

Jonathan Hickman

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction...

Denise Mina

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

Leonard Baskin

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

Stefan Sagmeister

I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works,...

Jim Woodring

In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And...

James Patterson

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

The Cheese Monkeys

If You believe in yourself you can reach everything you want.

Dutch Graphic Design: A Century

Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.

The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

Colleen Haskell

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic.

Neil Marshall

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

With comics, you don't have to worry so much about budgetary constraints. In film and television, however fanciful you want to be, someone can come up to you and go, 'Okay, this is going to cost X amount of dollars, and we only have so many days to f...

John Ridley

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

The Cheese Monkeys

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 ...

Paul Rand

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.

Aaron Eckhart