Best Illustration Quotations
144 Illustration quotes by 131 unique authors
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I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.
— Mary Ellen Mark
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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
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You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
— Richard MacDonald
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.
— Jamie Bell
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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
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I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.
— Jaime Hernandez
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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
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The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.
— John Kricfalusi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.
— Howard Pyle
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Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
— Paul Gauguin
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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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