H. P. Lovecraft

There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.

American Novelist

Hans Hofmann

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

German Artist

Octavio Paz

Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Mexican Poet

Alva Myrdal

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

Swedish Diplomat

Roz Chast

I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they're verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they're happening.

American Cartoonist

Adrian Lyne

So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.

English Director

Frank Stella

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

American Artist

John Ruskin

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

English Writer

Jean-Jacques Annaud

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

French Director

Stephen Gardiner

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

British Architect

Pictorial is used when something is best explained visually rather than through text.

Visual Emphasis

Pictorials are helpful for learning, making complex information more accessible.

Educational Tool

Pictorials can depict cultural elements, often used in travel materials to showcase destinations.

Cultural Depiction

Pictorials (n.) captivate by detailing subjects through vivid photography or illustrations.

Visual Richness

Pictorials are thematic, focusing on particular subjects like fashion, travel, or history.

Topic Highlight

Pictorials often provide clarity and detail that might be lost in written explanations alone.

Instructional Clarity

 So this is the sketch of the two states. One is total chaos. The other is absolute order. And we were interested in seeing how little change it takes to move from one state to the other state. This also reminded us of two very different pictorial traditions. One is the altar tablets of the 15th century,

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 that they didn't really think was possible before. This is almost like designing something like Maya -- that an eight-year-old can use. But really the goal here was, within about a minute, I wanted somebody to replicate what typically takes a pictorial artist several weeks to create.

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 or a graphic artist. There are a variety of things that matter in such a choice, like the excitement of the work, achieving financial security, having time to raise a family, and so on. Maybe the artist's career puts you on the cutting edge of new forms of pictorial expression.

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 that were designed to look at the intersection between sound and image, to use an image to unveil a musical structure or to use a sound to show you something interesting about something that's usually pictorial. So what you're seeing on the screen is literally being drawn

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 the world is talking back to me through that camera the pictorial language has a unique ability to penetrate the human heart and mind photography has the power to change the course of civilization through changing perception we've inherited a huge number of assumptions

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 red means don't use it easy right we created a version of the heater that was powered with hot water instead of electricity and we made the instructions entirely pictorial so illiterate women could understand we discovered that many

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 it's a world apart from ordinary factum from soldiers fighting because the roman people are obsessed with gladiator fights we're able to build a very clear picture of what one looked like there's written evidence pictorial evidence

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 pictorial characters it was used to inscribe monuments and pottery and predominantly served a decorative or ceremonial purpose soon after another ancient form of writing called hieratic developed out of the hieroglyphic system

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 It looks at the territory of the United States as if it were a wheat field that is procured by the winds and that is really giving you a pictorial image of what's going on with the winds in the United States.

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 Rebecca is saying the pictorial patched stickler they're not a bad guess given that they too have got a yellow-bellied juvenile so maybe there are the petrel