Illustration Quotes - Page 6

• Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Heart, Giving

  Hartley Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1852). “Lives of northern worthies”, p.133

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• I was dyslexic as a child and it took me years to get passed that. I read a lot but it was hard and that didn't go away until my early-to-mid-twenties. So really what I was looking at were the photographs and the illustrations in magazines.

  Robert Benton

  Children, Years, Going Away

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• There is extensive critical scholarship that provides illustrations in many areas of scholarship. I've discussed many cases myself, while also citing and often relying on academic studies that disentangle these webs of mystification woven for the general public. It's impossible to provide illustrations that would even approach accuracy, let alone carry any conviction, without going well beyond the bounds of this discussion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Woven, Citing, Impossible

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.

  Demetri Martin

  Kids, Drawing, Progress

  "The Art of Being Demetri Martin". Interview with Jacob Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Although we had a lot of villainy here in America, Adolf Hitler was certainly the most visible illustration of what would happen if fascism went unchallenged.

  Harry Belafonte

  America, Fascism, Happens

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• The Bible portrays God as entering into covenants with people which, when broken, causes him grief and sorrow. The biblical prophet Hosea and God's using him as an illustration of how much Israel's idolatry costs God emotionally points to God's vulnerability. But also the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ who, even as God the Son, suffered for our sins, points to God's vulnerability.

  Roger E. Olson

  Jesus, Grief, Biblical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Married, Desperate

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.36, Vintage

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• The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.

  Molly Crabapple

  Differences, Pages, Nine

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sacrifice, Opportunity, Men

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.141, tredition

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• In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.

  Edward Forbes

  Taken, Independent, Men

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• Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Mean, Gymnastics, Science

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a recent period encumbered mathematics in all those branches involving the consideration of negative and impossible quantities, will at once occur to the reader who is at all versed in this science, and would alone suffice to justify dwelling somewhat on the point, in connexion with any subject so peculiarly fitted to give forcible illustration of it as the Analytical Engine.

  Ada Lovelace

  Dwelling, Giving, Confusion

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• I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.

  Dave Barry

  Horse, Book, School

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• The best illustration I can give of his talent is that at Manchester United there was always a possession drill in training designed to develop our passing ability, which might be three players against another three players, or six versus six, or nine versus nine. But no matter what the numbers were, the side with Paul Scholes on their team would always win by keeping the most possession.

  Gary Neville

  Team, Player, Winning

  "Scholes is simply the best English player of his generation". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 15, 2012.

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• The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Fall, Rocks

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.37, Destiny Image Publishers

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• [My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views of those principles, and as evidence strengthening the system necessarily arising out of the admission of such principles, which... are neither more nor less than that no causes whatever have from the earliest time to which we can look back, to the present, ever acted, but those now acting; and that they never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert.

  Charles Lyell

  Book, Science, Views

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• Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.

  Winston Churchill

  Different, Way, Essays

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• We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a Constitution that gave them political freedom and encouraged initiative, enterprise, responsibility, industry and thrift. Freedom and achievement are not unrelated. This nation has become one of history's finest illustrations of how a people can enrich life and raise their whole level of economic well-being when they are given justice, liberty and incentive.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Freedom, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

  Michael Rostovtzeff

  Independent, Historical, Information

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• Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.

  Cressida Cowell

  Children, Book, Reading

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• The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Becoming, Doe

  "Collected Fictions" by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley, 1998.

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• If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do little ones. If you cannot be an Aaron to serve at the altar, or a Moses to guide the tribes, consent to be "a little maid" to Xaaman the Syrian, for the honor of God's prophets, or a little child, for Christ's sake, to be set by Him in the midst of the people, as an illustration of the sweetness of humility.

  Samuel Francis Smith

  Children, Humility, People

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 123, 1895.

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• Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

  David Bolinsky

  Art, School, Medicine

  "Lives of a cell, the 3-D version". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 14, 1007.

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• My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.

  Burton Silverman

  Color, Training, Taught

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• A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.

  John F. Carlson

  Beautiful, Art, Expression

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