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Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace. -- Wallace Tripp
Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it. -- Eric Drooker
Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained. -- John Kricfalusi
Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today. -- John Kricfalusi
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators. -- Bill Sienkiewicz
The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators. -- Brad Holland
I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars. -- Tony Ross
I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators. -- Thomas Kinkade
The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks. -- Chris Riddell
I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well. -- Malorie Blackman
I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators. -- Thomas Kincade
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
I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils. -- Anthony Browne
That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for. -- Eric Carle
We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster. -- Gerhard Richter
A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life. -- Brian Wildsmith
Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance. -- Chris Riddell
I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me! -- Berlie Doherty
In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design. -- Brian Wildsmith
To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the real world into a consistent code. If you look at Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko, their drawings look nothing like the real world, but they are internally consistent. In terms of a comic book it can work just fine. -- Dave Gibbons
I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age, but also by the Warner Bros. cartoons, 'Tom and Jerry,' and of course Disney. And also by Fellini's 'Giulietta of the Spirits' and Kurosawa's 'Ran.' And by other American illustrators and painters. -- Henry Selick
I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators. -- Thomas Kincade
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose. -- Edward Tufte
The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them. -- Michael Ian Black

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