Quotes About Illustration

The text illustrates the pictures - it provides a connective tissue for me. I usually refine the text last, partly because pictures are harder to do, so it's easier to edit words - I use text as grout in between the tiles of the pictures.

I have loved enough women to know how to paint. If I had loved fewer, I would be an illustrator; if I had loved more, I would be a poet.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

sitting there with a face like a smacked arse, the dinner so charred you could have drawn pictures with it.

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.

an illustration of the fallacy of Platonic thinking applied to evolutionary principles.

Luther used this as an illustration of how even when God reached out to us in love and grace, we are often so suffused with the idea of him as a stern judge bent on punishing us that we tragically shrink from his loving grasp, thus to our own sad detriment denying ourselves the very thing for which we long.

allegory (which is an extended metaphor or image),

A good example is the best sermon.

We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told.

I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out.

One of my earliest jobs drawing was 'Wonder Woman: Our Worlds At War,' with Phil Jimenez, which was a really cool jaunt through her history. I got to draw this two-page spread that was set in the Golden Age.

When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.

The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.

There was never a better illustration of the validity of the Enlightenment dream – that order can emerge where nobody is in charge. The genome, now sequenced, stands as emphatic evidence that there can be order and complexity without any management.

The virtuosity and visual humor of people like A.B. Frost, T.S. Sullivant, and [Thomas] Nast of course, have so much depth and innate humor that I couldn't really resist cross hatching. Later day cross-hatchers like Ron Cobb and Bill Plympton were also early influences. (from an interview in Attitude, 2002)

You'll love it, Betsy. Each room illustrates a period. They run from the Stone Age to the death of King Ludwig the Second. Let's go through them in order!" "Oh, you Germans!" Betsy teased. "Such thoroughness! You know, don't you, that there are over a hundred rooms?

My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job.

All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

I was a big 'MAD Magazine' fan when I was a kid, and I read a lot of horror comics - I illustrated as well.

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.