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Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance. -- Henry James
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. -- Joseph Howe
Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. -- Grace Darling
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. -- Marsha Norman
I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels. -- Kara Walker
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. -- Dav Pilkey
I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars. -- Mary Ellen Mark
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! -- Norman Rockwell
For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do. -- Bernie Sanders
I started thinking about how rain is depicted in illustrations. In comics that use gouache or watercolor, they use light blue, so I started using that color. -- Lucien Smith
When you speak to a lot of kids, as I've done over the years, you know what to say, keep them laughing, good illustrations and learn to read. -- George Foreman
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
I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators. -- Meg Cabot
Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations. -- A. N. Wilson
Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then. -- John Kricfalusi
I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are. -- Tomie dePaola
I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations. -- Nicole Krauss
For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources. -- Michael Rostovtzeff
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life. -- Anthony Browne
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
People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form. -- Dave Gibbons
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public. -- Joseph C. Lincoln
Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own. -- Christopher Golden
I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought. -- Dan DeCarlo
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
What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together. -- Tom Wujec
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
My life is an open book. With illustrations. -- Hugh Hefner
In nature, golden illustrations lie upon the surface. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans. -- Jamie Bell
Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him. -- Kate DiCamillo
The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity. -- Richard A. Proctor
If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday. -- Jack Hyles
My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective. -- Burton Silverman
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
Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled. -- Jim Lee
If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one. -- Amen Muffler
It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. ... I have done nothing in that direction since. -- John Tenniel
You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience. -- Norman Thomas
The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius. -- John H. Vincent
I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot. -- Jamie Wyeth
My favourite books series as a young child was the Frank L. Baum 'Wizard of Oz' series. They were beautifully written, oversized fat books with wonderful type and illustrations. -- Anita Shreve
With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody. -- Kurt Vonnegut
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations. -- Paul Klee
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds. -- James Clerk Maxwell
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words. -- Aldous Huxley
Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of repression, malice, dishonesty, marginalization and exclusion in the academic world. -- Noam Chomsky
When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions. -- Chris Riddell
People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of Watchmen as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form. -- Dave Gibbons
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
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
Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations. -- Winston Churchill
The greatest and the best Christians when they are physically weak are more prone to an attack of spiritual depression than at any other time and there are great illustrations of this in the Scriptures. -- Martyn Llyod-Jones
In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated. -- Andy Grundberg
My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth. -- Paula Fox

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