Best Illustration Sayings

144 Illustration quotes by 131 unique authors

The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross… — Russell Kirk
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events… — Aldous Huxley
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds… — Frederic Farrar
If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things that I do,… — Ken Done
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own… — Aristotle
There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to… — John Conyers
Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other. — N. C. Wyeth
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last… — Paul Klee
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations… — Peter Porter
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration… — James Dwight Dana
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the… — James Clerk Maxwell
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who… — Louis J. Mordell
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. — Dav Pilkey
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of… — Shahzia Sikander
I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page… — Richard MacDonald
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and… — Henry James
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… — Samuel Johnson
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
In the world of comics, Jack Kirby and Will Eisner may have been more influential artists, but Joe Kubert was its most influential man. Even… — Mark Waid
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety… — Samuel Johnson
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for… — Allen Ginsberg
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of… — Matthew Simpson
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting… — Alberto Manguel
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. — John Howe
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might… — Chris Van Allsburg

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