Quotes About Illustration

Kiyohiko Azuma

Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

A good example is the best sermon.

If ... you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

What really got me thinking about illustrating children's books was I discovered Hugh Thompson's illustrations for The Vicar of Wakefield in my mother's library and I looked at it and said, 'That's what I'm going to do.

I started my work on a lot of the 'Batman' books. So I've worked on a 'Batman,' 'Spider-Man,' some of the 'X-Men' books.

At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

me as though I might need another analogy, which I didn't

The Armenian genocide was a horrific illustration of the convulsions that could seize a multi-ethnic polity trying to mutate from empire into nation state.

There's nothing worse than illustrating a chapter on space travel with a photograph of the latest American satellite. Signor Garamond had taught me that it needs, at the very least, an angel by Dore.

I don't know if there's an illustration more clear as to what can really take place in a person's life spiritually than this animated character transforming from an animal to a prince

Edward Tufte shows in his book Visual Explanations

Whenever the kindly uncles and aunts came over for a cup of tea and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, it was always the same: an 'authoress', and illustrate my own books.

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.

I've done a bit of teaching, but I gave it up - I felt uneasy teaching illustration to people who hadn't yet learned to draw.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? HENRY JAMES

From the outset Dickens seemed to take charge even though he was younger than Seymour and less well known. His narrative input seemed to drive the content of the comic plates, which eventually led to the story becoming the main point of interest and with the death of Seymour the plates were reduced to two an instalment whereas the text increased to 16,000 words. Dickens succeeded where his predecessors had failed, making the print more important than the illustration.

Az emberi gyengeségr?l éppúgy példa alapján alkotunk képet, ahogy a pecsétnyomó lenyomatot hagy a viaszon.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

An illustration that does not complement a story, in the end, will become but a false idol. Since we cannot possibly believe in an absent story, we will naturally begin believing in the picture itself.