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Quotes About Illustration

Credits Cover art © 2004 by Jim Paillot.
~ Dan Gutman
There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.
~ John Conyers
La novità è invece nella larga esemplificazione da testi scritti, garanzia di una descrizione fondata sull'uso
~ Unknown
She always seemed dead anyway, but nicely so, like an illustration or an advertisement.
~ Unknown
By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.
~ John Tenniel
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
~ M. C. Escher
I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.
~ Chester Brown
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
~ Patricia Cornwell
The situation at 100 Central Park South is a perfect illustration. Soon after I purchased the building, I did some research into the financial status of the tenants. What I discovered was fascinating but not surprising. There are three distinct groups. The first, who live in the largest apartments, overlooking the park, on the higher floors, are generally successful, wealthy, and in some cases quite prominent.
~ Donald J. Trump
Of self-sacrifice the Cross is the sublimest of all illustrations. It has cost God something to love.
~ Lyman Abbott
Jesus also used this illustration: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough" (Matthew 13:33 NLT). Yeast gets into the dough and slowly works its way through the entire batch. The promise is this: the goodness of Jesus will work its way through your entire being. Jesus is the yeast
~ John Eldredge
My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come away with a stronger impression of the basic message in the story I am illustrating.
~ Floyd Cooper
All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employed by the big financial houses. And nothing reminds me so much of the monthly parts of Notre-Dame de Paris, and of various books by Gérard de Nerval, that used to hang outside the grocer's door at Combray, than does, in its rectangular and flowery border, supported by recumbent river-gods, a 'personal share' in the Water Company.
~ Marcel Proust
A newspaper publisher. In the late 1800s the United States and Spain were warming up for a war over Cuba, and Hearst sent an illustrator to Cuba to make pictures of the event. When the illustrator got there, he sent a telegram to Hearst saying that as far as he could see, there was no war coming and that he was going home. Hearst sent back that he should stay and said, 'You furnish the pictures, and I will furnish the war.' And he did.
~ John Scalzi
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.
~ Boris Vallejo
In all God's providences it is good to observe the fulfilling of scripture, and to compare God's word and his works together, which if we do we shall find an admirable harmony and agreement between them, and that they mutually explain and illustrate each other.
~ Matthew Henry
A demonstration is more than worth a thousand words.
~ Michael Scott
Her shoulders were thin and wide and her neck long, reminding him of an illustration of a swan on a box of detergent.
~ Min Jin Lee
I am afraid I never wore a deerstalker, or smoked the big pipe – mere embellishments by an illustrator, intended to give me distinction, I suppose, and sell magazines. I didn't get much say in the matter.
~ Mitch Cullin
It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others.
~ Patricia Briggs
Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
~ John 10:6
These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
~ Galatians 4:24
It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.
~ Hebrews 9:9