Illustrations Quotes

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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
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
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. — Dav Pilkey
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
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
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 respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars. — Mary Ellen Mark
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
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 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
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
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
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
My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly… — Burton Silverman
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be… — Cressida Cowell
The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under the exactingly careful… — Steve Donoghue
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. — Marsha Norman
Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am… — Aldous Huxley

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