Illustrating Quotes

• The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Space, Feelings

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Serenity, Energy

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

  Jim Rohn

  Philosophy, Personality, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 17, 2017

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• What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Hands, Ideas, Secret

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can do fine. There are great non-fiction writers, but people aren't necessarily going to say anything that reveals them as much as a picture might. Even their surroundings, in lot of cases, the things that meant the most to me were the things I noticed in their houses. I was always looking, as much as I was listening to them. I was looking around for clues as to why I was there.

  Miranda July

  Mean, People, House

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cameras, Directors, Firsts

  Zoetrope All-Story, Volume 5, No. 1., Spring 2001.

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• Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes an important contribution by illustrating how trade unions, far from being outdated, will be at the forefront of a just transition. It is a challenging compilation?coming at exactly the right time.

  Sharan Burrow

  Challenges, Important, World

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• One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes ... Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it.

  Roland Barthes

  Ethical Questions, Our World, Desire

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• I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

  John Howe

  Book, Illustration, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.

  Paul Conrad

  Issues, Cartoon, Looks

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• I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

  Hugh Lofting

  Children, Writing, Authority

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• The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

  John Scott

  Artist, Innocence And Experience, Ethics

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• I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.

  Jabari Asim

  Writing, Thinking, Cells

  "Book World Live: Kid's Books". Online dicuss, www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2005.

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• The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy , the motion and the other inner forces ... the modern artist is working with space and time , and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Space

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• An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that's what you hold on to, and that's what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there.

  Maurice Sendak

  Falling In Love, Believe, Book

  "Sendak on Sendak". Interview at Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, 2007/2008.

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• This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

  Josiah Royce

  Fashion, Views, Swag

  Josiah Royce (1900). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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• It sort of floated toward me,” said Ron, illustrating the movement with his free index finger, “right to my chest, and then — it just went straight through. It was here,” he touched a point close to his heart, “I could feel it, it was hot. And once it was inside me I knew what I was supposed to do, I knew it would take me where I needed to go. So I Disapparated and came out on the side of a hill. There was snow everywhere. . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Snow, Movement

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• I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.

  Gloria Stuart

  Book, Artist, Type

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• Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating featured any black kids-except for token blacks in the background. My book would have him there simply because he should have been there all along. Years before I had cut from a magazine a strip of photos of a little black boy. I often put them on my studio walls before I'd begun to illustrate children's books. I just loved looking at him. This was the child who would be the hero of my book.

  Ezra Jack Keats

  Children, Wall, Book

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• The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about plantation life and slavery, I try to find clients that will give me an opportunity to work on projects that will visualize those experiences of the enslaved African and people of color. I get to learn about my roots, and my artwork allows the reader into that world by creating images that are accessible.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Art, Opportunity, Color

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Book, Writing, Kids

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Simple, People

  Billy Graham (2011). “Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. You must know you have control and be self-conscious enough to use it -- and every chapter in this book is devoted to illustrating a different aspect of why that control is real.

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Book, Hard Work

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• Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Doe, Way, Seeing

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “My Name Is Red”, p.28, Vintage

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• The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial fieldwork experiences and their lives. Illustrating the dense interweaving of the personal and the professional that is the hallmark of anthropology as a vocation, these essays are at once affectively deep reflections, and clear-eyed assessments, of lives often lived 'between here and there.' Alma Gottlieb's idea to stimulate these articles and bring together this collection was inspired.

  Sherry Ortner

  Powerful, Reflection, Assessment

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