Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old illustration quotes, illustration sayings, and illustration proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.Howard Crosby
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Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.Tony DiTerlizzi
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No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!Norman Rockwell
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A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.Chauncey Depew
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An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.Charles M. Blow
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I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.Richard MacDonald
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You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.Richard MacDonald
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Illustration is commercial. It's work that we produce, and I think what you can do is you can draw from the pool of art, but most of it comes from a pool of knowledge.Brian Stelfreeze
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Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.Maurice Sendak
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The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.Horace
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My life is an open book. With illustrations.Hugh Hefner
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There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.James Gurney
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We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.Joseph Howe
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Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.Marsha Norman
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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.Francis Bacon