Quotes About Art

It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

If an actor only comes alive when he has lines to say, it doesn't work, and the same goes for illustrated characters.

Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.

I have a BFA in illustration.

I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by good art. Of course, great writing and great illustration makes for a great comic 100 percent of the time.

To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations.

I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

The reason I love comics and have collected them for 37 years is because I always wanted to be an illustrator and a writer - and comics are really the perfect blend of those two mediums.

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.

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 possible. You are a servant to the story.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

What's so important with fashion imagery and with imagery in general is that it ultimately evokes an emotion.

Here I come with these images of black and white people, and a lot of people got angry at me.

People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.