Illustration Quotes

It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done nothing in that direction since.

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.

A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.

Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

Who you love is an illustration of you... but whomever loves you back is you... in HD.

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.

I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.

My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius.

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.

Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.

From an illustration in her "Animals of a Bygone Era": a Leptictidium, an extinct rabbit-like animal who left no descendants, says: "Too bad, because we were really cute.

Inspire someone today. Your action can change that person’s life forever.

Inking is meditation in liquid form...

To demonstrate the nature of one who would enter the kingdom is to use an illustration

Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that.

Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations.

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.

I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.

The deeper the illustration the strengthened the value

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

If I live...I will live unafraid...I will live so all can see, I am not ashamed of who I am or what I'm designed to be!"-The Great Mephisto