Definition of Pictorial

Pictorial

Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.

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Pictorial Quotations

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

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

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
Johan Huizinga

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.
Hans Hofmann

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

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.
Alva Myrdal

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.
Adrian Lyne

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

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Pictorial Translations

pictorial in German is bildhaften, malerisch
pictorial in Swedish is illustrerad

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