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I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role. -- Maurice Sendak
In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator. -- Terence Stamp
As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator. -- Robert T. Bakker
As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies. -- Chris Van Allsburg
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic. -- Bat for Lashes
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator. -- Trudi Canavan
I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College. -- Natalie Babbitt
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw. -- Natalie Babbitt
I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story. -- Brian Selznick
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures. -- Chris Ware
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. -- John Howe
I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time. -- Brian Selznick
It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the way J.K. described everything; she's such a visually thinking person. You can't pass that up. -- Mary Grandpre
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too. -- Natalie Babbitt
As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine. -- Quentin Blake
And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living. -- Brian Michael Bendis
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. -- Brian Selznick
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story. -- Philip Reeve
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life. -- Norman Rockwell
As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality. -- John Van Hamersveld
Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books. -- Walter Dean Myers
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related. -- Marjane Satrapi
For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary. -- Bill Plympton
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn. -- Daniel Handler
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking. -- George Lucas
I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer. -- Paula Scher
Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career. -- Andre Leon Talley
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan. -- Jeannette Walls
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes. -- Ira Levin
It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision. -- Matthea Harvey
I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know? -- Quentin Blake
I have loved enough women to know how to paint.If I had loved fewer, I would be an illustrator; if I had loved more, I would be a poet. -- Sarah Ruhl
I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country, and immediately I started to paint fairies and trolls. -- Brian Froud
Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist. -- Billy Cannon
I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em! -- Wayne White
After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess. -- Anthony Browne

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