Top 204 Illustration Quotes & Sayings

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

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.

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.

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.

Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

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

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation.

I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.

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

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there.

Every volcano is a powerful illustration of God's character. He is a Vesuvius of goodness, life, and energy.

I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.

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.

I have a BFA in illustration.

The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world.

I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like.

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

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

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.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

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.

If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of history and a sanction of evidence), then we are in for trouble - as critics properly nail the particular weakness, and then assume that the whole theory must be in danger if supporters choose such a fatuous case as a primary illustration.

Comics are not illustration, any more than fiction is copywriting. Illustration is essentially the application of artistic technique or style to suit a commercial or ancillary purpose; not that cartooning can't be this (see any restaurant giveaway comic book or superhero media property as an example), but comics written and produced by a cartoonist sitting alone by him- or herself are not illustrations. They don't illustrate anything at all, they literally tell a story.

A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.

You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

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

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

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.