Ability Quote by Quentin Blake

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

— Matthea Harvey

We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography.…

— Gerhard Richter

I don't think you can develop or learn a way of seeing or a point of view. A way of seeing is who you…

— Mary Ellen Mark

You don't put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you're an illustrator - it's not part of it; it's not…

— Robert Ingpen

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

— Toni Morrison

I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it,…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

Kendrick Lamar taught me that life experience is an important part of being a good illustrator. When you're illustrating a story, you have to…

— Roddy Ricch

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the…

— Gerhard Richter

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't…

— Chris Ware

An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love…

— Maurice Sendak

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater…

— Gerhard Richter