Pictorial Quotes

• Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Mean
  • Body
  • Introducing

• The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.

  

  Dennis Oppenheim
  • Photograph
  • Reference
  • Rectangles

• No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Combination
  • Pictorial
  • Human loveliness

• ...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who view nature with detachment, for whom nature's appeal is primarily pictorial, classicists as opposed to romanticists, perhaps. On such a day, one is usually excited, physically exhilarated, mentally stimulated. Only not much is left for the imagination.

  

  Charlton Ogburn
  • Nature
  • Favorite
  • View

• Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

  

  William Mortensen
  • Thoughts
  • Emotion
  • Materials