Illustration Quotes

144 Illustration quotes by 131 unique authors

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference… — Aaron Siskind
I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic… — Unknown Author
A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such… — M.C. Escher
Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working… — Ellen Tauscher
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a… — Abraham Lincoln
Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries,… — Unknown Author
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… — Peg Bracken
I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There… — Emir Kusturica
British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For… — Conor Cruise O'Brien
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! — Norman Rockwell
There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many… — James Gurney
Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures… — Otto Neurath
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the… — Edith Hall
I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and… — Chris Raschka
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of… — Bernard Herrmann
The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and in… — Kealan Patrick Burke
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are… — John Wesley Powell
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. — Jack Prelutsky
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into… — Boris Vallejo
I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over. — Max Cannon
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. — Joseph Howe
Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles. If the principles… — Swami Vivekananda
Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is… — Swami Vivekananda
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… — George Santayana
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… — Adrian Bejan

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