Karin Slaughter Quotes

Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!

My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.

When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied.

Film is anti-language.

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.

It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

I don't need dialogue to convey emotion or thoughts to my audience.

Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.

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

I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.

How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.

What's great is that each medium has a unique set of things that it does and does well. Film is a visual medium, and obviously, you can't fit a whole book into two hours unless you're really economical about it. Obviously, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, and on some level, it's sort of true.

There are things I want to say: They are very important to me, and, not being a writer, I do it through movies.

I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

I've said this before, but I don't like putting captions in my comic books. I feel, for me, they become a crutch, a way to ignore the essential fact that our medium is a visual medium, and the greatest pleasures to be derived from comics are how stories can be told with pictures.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

Even in 'The Red Shoes,' a film that nobody ever has complaints about, there are enormous continuity bumps, and it doesn't matter. You know why? Because you're being carried along by the power of the film.

Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.