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144 Illustration quotes by 131 unique authors

I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars. — Mary Ellen Mark
I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory. — Jean-Luc Godard
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected. — Richard MacDonald
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the… — Frank Stella
I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've… — Scott Westerfeld
I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I… — Julie Mehretu
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective… — Gerhard Richter
A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of… — Gerhard Richter
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a… — Gerhard Richter
I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans. — Jamie Bell
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… — Paula Fox
I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things. — Jaime Hernandez
I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five… — Nicole Krauss
The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style. — John Kricfalusi
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the… — Charles Petzold
I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any… — Brian Selznick
The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation… — Lesslie Newbigin
The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes… — Camille Paglia
In Heaven there is no need for sex because there is no need for a shadow or illustration-just a need to enjoy it! — David Berg
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter… — Ambrose Bierce
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents.… — Ambrose Bierce
A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But… — William Cowper
I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration. — Howard Pyle
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin
All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have… — Wendy Beckett

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