Illustration Quotes
Drawing meaning, one line at a time.
These illustration quotes come mostly from people who trained for it directly — BFA programs, art institutes — and talk about illustration as both craft and a way of explaining ideas that plain description can't reach. A few reflect on the discomfort of teaching it too early.
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
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I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there.
Art Quotes
I've done a bit of teaching, but I gave it up - I felt uneasy teaching illustration to people who hadn't yet learned to draw.
The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.
Creativity Quotes
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.
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.
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