A Quote by Floyd Cooper

I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.

Floyd Cooper

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Floyd Cooper
Illustrator

My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that hard work and inspiration will always be the foundation for success.

Bob Beamon

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

Adrienne Mayor

Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist or not, I will always write songs.

Thomas Rhett

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

Jeffrey Brown

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

Tom Robbins

The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.

Marshall McLuhan

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

Patricia Cornwell

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.

Sally Lloyd-Jones

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Douglas Adams

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Douglas Adams

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

Brian Selznick

All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.