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I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration. -- Freddie Mercury
The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style. -- John Kricfalusi
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? -- Henry James
Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person. -- Marilyn vos Savant
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration. -- Boris Vallejo
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. -- Frank Stella
There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. -- John Conyers
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration. -- Chris Van Allsburg
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. -- John Wesley Powell
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know. -- Albert Camus
I have a BFA in illustration. -- Mike Shinoda
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. -- Joseph Howe
I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over. -- Max Cannon
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. -- Marsha Norman
I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things. -- Jaime Hernandez
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. -- John Howe
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. -- Jack Prelutsky
I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like. -- Robert H. Schuller
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! -- Norman Rockwell
I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms. -- Mika
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration. -- David Bailey
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make. -- Kate Adie
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
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. -- Ellen Willis
Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families. -- Ellen Tauscher
An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle. -- Charles M. Blow
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us. -- Matthew Simpson
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration. -- Aaron Siskind
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible. -- T. D. Jakes
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures. -- Peter Porter
I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings. -- Francis Bacon
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn. -- William Banting
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Editorial cartoons are about concept. The illustration is merely a vehicle to convey a point of view. We're here to protect and inform the public, to attack and repel those who do not agree with our long-term shared interest. -- Michael Ramirez
Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself. -- Marina Abramovic
I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers. -- Graeme Base
I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known ones and when discovered are valueless-very illustrations perhaps of their refinements in analysis, but very little aiding the progress of true science. -- Michael Faraday
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world? -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium. -- Richard Dawkins
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Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated. -- Robert Wilson
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia. -- Ambrose Bierce
All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype, -- Barbara Kruger
Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography. -- Herb Lubalin
Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art. -- John Burnside
My life will be the best illustration of all my work. -- Hans Christian Andersen
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one. -- Carl Linnaeus
I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography. -- E. J. Hughes
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected. -- Richard MacDonald
The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism. -- Noam Chomsky
A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument. -- Chauncey Depew
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. -- Wilson Follett
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The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual. -- Bill Johnson
Who you love is an illustration of you... but whomever loves you back is you... in HD. -- Ingrid Weir
The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. -- John Burroughs
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. Herbert -- H. H. Asquith
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. -- Paul Gauguin
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. -- George Combe
The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.] -- Horace
This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing. -- John Morrison
The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration. -- Francis Bacon
I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration. -- Howard Pyle
I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration. -- Stephan Pastis
In Heaven there is no need for sex because there is no need for a shadow or illustration-just a need to enjoy it! -- David Berg
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 -- Andre Benjamin
Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator. -- Francis Bacon
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. -- Gaspar Noe
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. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop. -- Peg Bracken
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. -- Mac Barnett
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. -- Bernhard Schlink
You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good. -- Daniel Clowes
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. -- Mark Alan Stamaty
There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms. -- James Gurney
The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations. -- Molly Crabapple
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation. -- Howard Crosby
I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist. -- Ralph Bakshi
An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle. -- Charles M. Blow
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. -- Lesslie Newbigin
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods. -- George Santayana
As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing. -- Chris Riddell
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. -- Werner Heisenberg
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. -- Richard MacDonald
A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object. -- Francis Bacon
I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that. -- Julie Mehretu
Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences. -- Robin Cook
Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents. -- Glen Duncan
A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist. -- Reese Witherspoon
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. -- Samuel Johnson
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early. -- Scott Westerfeld
Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school. -- David Bolinsky
Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school. -- David Bolinsky
Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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