Gavin DeGraw Quotes

I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple!

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

Every social media post should have a beautiful graphic. If there are two identical stories, the one with the beautiful graphic will always win.

Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

I love the idea of web design that maximises expressiveness over functionality.

In this industry, people like to look at different faces on their screens - even I do.

I think that anybody can go home, put the record on, and listen to it note for note, but there's very little entertainment value in that, I believe. When you give people something visually entertaining to watch along with presenting the music, I feel it makes it a lot more interesting.

I don't know what people like to see.

I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.

I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.

I think if you had different artists approaching the material in different styles, that's very different. I think it's an interesting thing to discover, what's present in the work even when you're shifting the styles. I've just found it a much stronger way to work.

The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?

The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so it's really graphic and visual. And the French were something else.

Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.

It's always important to understand as filmmakers that we're not making a documentary and it has to look good. It has to entertain, because otherwise your audience will switch and watch another series. It has to look better and larger than life.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.