My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and… — Tim Perkins Copy Share Image
“When you cultivate love and kindness in your heart, everything around you becomes love and kindness.” — Isa Zapata Copy Share Image
You don't put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you're an illustrator - it's not part of it;… — Robert Ingpen Copy Share Image
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
The great children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes marks her 90th birthday by appearing as Michael Berkeley's guest in 'Private Passions'. — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
“God is a great illustrator especially when I look at the humankind; different races, different genders, different heights, different weights and different… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the way J.K. described everything; she's… — Mary Grandpre Copy Share Image
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw was in the Music Business for 5,000 years in his life time and he was in 5,000,000,000 movies all together… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
“With a glance back towards the house, he pulled the secret sketches from within. He'd been working at them on and off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript,… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
“I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.” — Daniel Sean Kaye Copy Share Image
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I was a magazine illustrator for many years before I became an actor, and I used to think, 'Oh, God, all those… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“Children need to see themselves in books. They need to see their gender. They need to see their color, hair texture, their… — Christian Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most… — John Howe Copy Share Image
“Sharon Ellis has proven to be a skilled, perceptive, and flexible medical illustrator. When I first recruited her into this project after… — Leslie Kaminoff Copy Share Image
I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Without Lydia’s partnership, this book would still be lingering somewhere in the space between my head and my hard drive. Sharon Ellis… — Leslie Kaminoff Copy Share Image
“Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.” — Peggy A. Borel Copy Share Image
