Cover Art Quotes

#1. Readers are always surprised to learn that authors have little or no input regarding the cover art for their books.

Jane Lindskold

#2. I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

Jeff Buckley

#3. I may be biased, but I think the cover art is stunning.

Patricia Leavy

#4. My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

Jeff VanderMeer

#5. I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.

Questlove

#6. The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

Camille Paglia

#7. It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.

Ewan McGregor

#8. Every plain wall deserves a piece of work, so why not cover it with a smile?

Shawn Lukas

#9. Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

Eric Drooker

#10. The things that happen to me just make me more me.

Joshilyn Jackson

#11. Gurl,if you were a flower I will plant you in heart,watering you with my blood and cover you with my body.

Knight Mayor

#12. A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

James MacDonald

#14. It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

Michael Musto

#15. The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me.

Kirtida Gautam

#16. Wait a second, is a snooty book critic actually admitting to judging books by their covers?

Larry Correia

#17. To remain perfect and to remove the imperfect." The children echoed.

Grace M. Morris

#18. Where you are undoubtedly studying art history, women's studies, and probably casting your own bronzes. And you probably work in a coffee house to help cover the rent.

Neil Gaiman

#19. We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

W. Averell Harriman

#20. My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

Jude Deveraux

#21. I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

James Wolcott

#23. Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

Walter Darby Bannard

#24. There are so many people who want to be the next person on 'Home and Away,' or they just want to be on the cover of a magazine, and they don't really understand the craft. They're not interested in theatre, they're not interested in the art.

Gillian Alexy

#25. The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

Honore De Balzac

#26. The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

Bob Dylan

#27. One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you're just using health care to make money, you will treat the wrong diseases. Capitalism has its limits. There is a role for governments, and this is one where they should be involved.

Richard J. Roberts

#28. For all that beauty that doth cover thee
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me.
How can I then be elder than thou art?

William Shakespeare

#29. Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form.

Beth Moore

#30. Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Alexander Pope

#31. The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..

Andrew Davidson

#32. I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started making the connection between the art and the person making it, and when I heard that he was going to work on the cover for 'Seven Forges,' that connection was not yet cemented.

James A. Moore

#33. A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is 'Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino.' And I thought, 'Well, no art department came up with this; this is Quentin's writing.'

Dennis Christopher