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Quotes About Graphic

Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.
~ Shirley Jackson
When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.
~ Olivia Thirlby
All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.
~ Christopher Darden
Like O'Rielly, we'll grab the most important word of each sentence... 'The' for example. Also, I'll say, 'I'm angry,' and the graphic will read, 'Colbert angry.
~ Stephen Colbert
Feelings and emotions can dismantle gradually all lucid patterns in the back garden of our fantasy. A reflect graphic image of our dream can reveal what is hidden in the back of our mind's eye and show things we are, maybe, not ready to acknowledge. ("Back garden of a dream")
~ Erik Pevernagie
Journalism and popular fiction have merged, and the graphic and the plausible have become an end in themselves. The contemporary public plainly prefers mirrors to windows.
~ Gore Vidal
That morning stays in my head like a graphic novel, images telling the story in bold swaths of black and white with smudges of jolting color roaring out of the lines.
~ Gregg Olsen
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.
~ David Jason
No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
~ Bennet Omalu
The kidney was removed with great skill. We have an image of the kidney taken from that broadcast. Viewers are advised that the following image is quite graphic, and- I am getting so sick of looking at this kidney, I said. It's a farce, Jazza replied. They act like they're shocked and horrified, and then they show it off twenty times a day. Have you seen the singing kidney video? I asked. Ugh. No. It's really funny. You should watch it.
~ Maureen Johnson
By today's sensibilities, it's more than a little macabre that a great moral movement would adopt as its symbol a graphic representation of a revolting means of torture and execution.
~ Steven Pinker
I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.
~ Tim Allen
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff
~ Brad Bird
Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.
~ Shepard Fairey
For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.
~ Bryan Fuller
A study by the Parents Television Council, a media watchdog group, found scenes of graphic violence and gore are increasing in TV dramas - and particularly on NBC.
~ Elizabeth Flock
I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend.
~ Michael McMillian
Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.
~ Gene Luen Yang
Beneath their strict conventionalisation one could grasp the minute and accurate observation and graphic skill of the artists; and indeed, the very conventions themselves served to symbolise and accentuate the real essence or vital differentiation of every object delineated.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.
~ Eric Carle
Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.
~ Tom Ford
I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.
~ Mark Billingham
The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.
~ Toyin Odutola