“Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.” — Peggy A. Borel Copy Share Image
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
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
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College. — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“When you cultivate love and kindness in your heart, everything around you becomes love and kindness.” — Isa Zapata Copy Share Image
I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I… — Brian Selznick 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
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
I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an… — Brian Selznick 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
The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical… — Kenneth Clark 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
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
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
“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
“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
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility… — Mary GrandPre 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 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
“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
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
“Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his… — David Scheier 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
As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies. — Chris Van Allsburg 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
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
I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of… — Quentin Blake 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
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
