Illustration Quotes - Page 3

• Who you love is an illustration of you... but whomever loves you back is you... in HD.

  Ingrid Weir

  Love, Love You, Love Is

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• A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.

  William Cowper

  Your Side, Long, Giving

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.86

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• For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign.

  Umberto Eco

  Simple, Cities, Leprosy

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Reading, Thinking

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.398, Harvard University Press

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• No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Flower, Snakes, Yellow

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• I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration ended up being the creative outlet that I focused on for my career. I feel like illustration gives me the flexibility to tackle more abstract or loose ideas, as well as just enjoy the process of putting time into developing a skill.

  Julie Dillon

  Writing, Play, Skills

  Interview with Loraine Sammy, www.apex-magazine.com. March 4, 2014.

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• All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.

  Wendy Beckett

  Deception, May, Brilliant

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• In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Justice, Goal

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• I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.

  Alberto Manguel

  Children, Book, Night

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• A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of them illustrate a collection of gruesome stories, murders and suicides which contrast with the images used. There is a contrast between the message carried by the text and that suppressed by the illustration.

  Gerhard Richter

  Suicide, Art, Magazines

  Gerhard Richter, Sean Rainbird, Tate Gallery (1991). “Gerhard Richter”, Tate Gallery Publication

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• I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Perfect, Feelings, Film

  "'Cinema Is Over'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2005.

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• An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

  Edward Everett

  Memories, Character, Age

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

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• If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you bring in something else as an illustration you mustn't wander off into endless irrelevancies.

  Anton Webern

  Important, Want, Forget

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• I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.

  Howard Pyle

  Inspiration, Analysis, Way

  Howard Pyle, Howard P. Brokaw (1998). “History and Romance: Works by Howard Pyle from the Brokaw Family Collection : the Exhibition, April 4 Through May 17, 1998, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania”

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• Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Bible, Christian, Spiritual

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• Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of the religious traditions of Native Americans. [Native Americans] are recognized the world over as keepers of a vital piece of the Creator's original orders, and yet they are regarded as little more than squatters at home. This book features impressive interviews, beautiful illustrations, and gives a voice to the voiceless.

  Peter Coyote

  Beautiful, Religious, Book

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• I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by other movies, because then you just are talking about movies in movies. I try to talk about movies that are culturally and spiritually a little more diverse.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Book, Inspiration, Talking

  Source: hollywoodchicago.com

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• In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. The conversation went on and on, and when
  we were finally through it was too late to return to New York.

  Margaret Sanger

  New York, Simple, Purpose

  Margaret Sanger (2004). “The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger”, p.367, Courier Corporation

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• If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.

  Jack Kirby

  Artist, Reality, Drawing

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Literature, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• I always love design but the more I designed for clients, the less I liked the process of designing for them. I do lettering and illustration for money, which clients don't mess with too much and web design for fun.

  Jessica Hische

  Fun, Design, Too Much

  Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

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• When I was little, I loved books that gave me lots of detail so that I felt like I could be transported to this other place, or, in the case of an illustration, I felt like I could walk into the page.

  Jan Brett

  Book, Details, Littles

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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

  Artist, Ego, Mind

  "Sendak at 50" by Selma G. Lanes, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 1979.

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• It's good when someone comes to a book or a movie and interacts with it. It's the difference between an illustration and a painting. An illustration serves a specific purpose, and a painting is something you can immerse yourself in.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Book, Differences, Purpose

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.

  Stan Lee

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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