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Quotes from Graphics and graphic information processing — Jacques Bertin

1918–2010 France

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The author has the reputation of being against color. I am indeed against color when it masks incompetence; when it allows the superimposition of characteristics to the point of absurdity; when people believe it capable of representing ordered data.

Graphics and graphic information processing (1981)

A graphic is not 'drawn' once and for all; it is 'constructed' and reconstructed until it reveals all the relationships constituted by the interplay of the data.... A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision-making.

Graphics and graphic information processing (1981)

[The special properties of visual perception of data]... is the visual means of resolving logical problems.

Graphics and graphic information processing (1981)

As with any graphic, networks are used in order to discover pertinent troups of to inform others of the groups and structures discovered. It is a good means of displaying structures, However, it ceases to be a means of discovery when the elements are numerous. The ﬁgure rapidly becomes complex, illegible and untransformable.

Graphics and graphic information processing (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jacques Bertin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.