James Wolcott Quotes

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

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

I have a BFA in illustration.

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

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

If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.

I'm an image-maker.

I'm an unbelievable designer.

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

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'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry. In other words, perhaps 'photography,' as a meaningful cultural trope, is over.

Many people think that being a graphic designer means going to an expensive art school and buying expensive software that will cost you thousands of dollars. This is so far from the truth. There are hundreds of online education centers that offer top-notch graphic design training.

Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to push things within a range. Some are rougher, some more expressionistic, some are slicker graphically and call for a prettier drawing style that I can do. Some have a more classical vibe, and some are in between.