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Quotes About Illustrations

To help everyone better understand the difference between giving equally with measured amounts, and giving uniquely, in terms of each child's legitimate needs, I handed out the following illustrations:
~ Adele Faber
edmond about'un roman? the king of the mountains (1857) için gustave dore'nin yapt??? gravürler, gecenin dü?lerini hat?rlarken al?nan zevkin güzel bir örne?idir. bir ingiliz han?m ve güzel k?z?yla birlikte yunanl? e?k?yalar taraf?ndan kaç?r?lan ba? kahraman, genç k?zla birlikte -fakat yan?nda annesi olmaks?z?n!- kaç?p kurtulma hayallerini anlatarak vakit geçirir.
~ Pierre Sorlin
All the time he had been talking his hands had wandered over the Illustrations, as if to adjust their frames, to brush away dust- the motions of a connoisseur, an art patron.
~ Ray Bradbury
Hariot would make a detailed record of the New World in writing, and White would undertake a series of illustrations and paintings. Together they would be Ralegh's ears and eyes in America.
~ James Horn
The purpose of all these illustrations is to direct the seeker's mind towards the one Reality underlying them all.
~ Ramana Maharshi
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.
~ Paul Klee
The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
~ Isaac Newton
I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.
~ Francis Bacon
It is, however, very important never to lose sight of the fact that the miniatures in illuminated books were not conceived as individual and independent paintings. They are book illustrations and are thus always intimately connected with a text.
~ Janet Backhouse
The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system racked by disease: studies of human suffering anatomized against the winter sky.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.
~ Dave Gibbons
I tend to stay away from the comics.
~ Idris Elba
The draftees of the working definition acknowledged its somewhat loose and vague wording, and thus added a number of 'examples' 'which may serve as illustrations'.
~ Ali Rattansi
'Mrs Funnybones' is based and structured around my columns, and it's about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. Since I have a weakness for illustrations, there are also a few funny illustrations in there as well.
~ Twinkle Khanna
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
~ Norman Rockwell
Picture books
~ Roald Dahl
Such a rich chapter it had been, when one came to look back on it all! With illustrations so numerous and so very highly coloured!
~ Kenneth Grahame
We can only find room for a few citations and illustrations in proof of this statement.
~ Kersey Graves
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.
~ Joseph C. Lincoln
My kids' books all have a darkness to them.
~ David Small
Some years back a small library I'd purchased had included a Cadwallader Club limited edition of the two Alice books, bound in red leather with gold stamping. John Tenniel's illustrations are the ones everybody knows, but the Cadwallader edition featured two dozen dazzling color plates by Michael Trossman. I never did get around to shelving the books
~ Lawrence Block
I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot.
~ Jamie Wyeth
And what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation?
~ Lewis Carroll
One of my favourite things growing up was 'Asterix', those books.
~ Paul Giamatti