Illustration Quotes

• 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

  Color, Weight, Lines

  "Charles Blow sobre la masculinidad, Trayvon Martin y revivir traumas infantiles". Entrevista con Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. Septiembre/octubre de 2014.

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• 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

  Writing, Asking Questions, Creating

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• Algunas personas han sostenido que las matemáticas deben enseñarse haciendo que las ilustraciones sean obvias para los sentidos. Nada puede ser más absurdo o perjudicial: nuestro esfuerzo constante debe ser hacer que la gente piense, no que sienta.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ciencia, Pensamiento, Personas

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). "Siete conferencias sobre Shakespeare y Milton: A List of All the Ms. Emendations in Mr. Collier's Folio, 1632", p.23

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• In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatomists. The text of such a memoir may soon lose its interest, and belong to the past, but good figures are of permanent value. [Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs.]

  Othniel Charles Marsh

  Science, Past, Justice

  Othniel Charles Marsh (1886). “Dinocerata: A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals”

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• But, in truth, the existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The footprint on the sand — to refer to his happy illustration — does not now stand alone. Instead of one, we see many footprints, each in turn in advance of the print behind it, and on a higher level.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, Feet, Levels

  "The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed".

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• El vapor flotante es una ilustración tan fiel de la ley de la gravedad como la avalancha que cae.

  John Burroughs

  Fall, Science, Law

  John Burroughs (1895). "Campos Frescos"

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• El objetivo del arte es crear espacio.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Space, Aim

  Frank Stella (1986). “Working Space”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.

  Kadir Nelson

  Book, Character, Reflection

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• Los sueños son ilustraciones del libro que tu alma está escribiendo sobre ti.

  Marsha Norman

  Inspiración, Vida, Sueño

  "El éxito viene en lata: Lecciones para la vida". Libro de Kriss Akabusi y Tricia Hartley, 2006.

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• I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

  Freddie Mercury

  Art, College, Diploma

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• No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

  Norman Rockwell

  Men, Feelings, Bats

  "Fusion Book 1, Enhanced Edition: Integrated Reading and Writing, Book 1". Book by Dave Kemper, Verne Meyer, John Van Rys, Patrick Sebranek (p. 202), January 2014.

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• 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

  Artist, Different, Reason Why

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• I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Firsts, Odd

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• Las maravillas del Gran Cañón no pueden representarse adecuadamente con los símbolos de la palabra, ni con la palabra misma. Los recursos del arte gráfico se ven desbordados al intentar describir sus características. El lenguaje y la ilustración combinados deben fracasar.

  John Wesley Powell

  Art, Speech, Language

  John Wesley Powell (2008). "Cañones del Colorado", p.394, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Rope, Levels, Impressive

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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• Beslán, donde las autoridades rusas impidieron la cobertura en directo del asalto a la escuela, fue un ejemplo de los progresos que aún nos quedan por hacer.

  Kate Adie

  School, Progress, Authority

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• Los recortes fiscales de hoy son un ejemplo más de la política económica fiscalmente irresponsable de los republicanos, que ignoran las necesidades de la clase media, los estudiantes y las familias trabajadoras de Estados Unidos.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Cutting, America, Class

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• I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

  Max Cannon

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• We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

  Joseph Howe

  Smile, May, Matter

  Joseph Howe (1858). “Speeches and Public Letters”, p.39

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• 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

  Unseen, Facts, Passing

  Matthew Simpson (1885). "Sermones"

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• ¿Qué es el carácter sino la determinación del incidente? ¿Qué es el incidente sino la ilustración del carácter?

  Henry James

  Inspiración, determinación, carácter

  "El arte de la ficción" (1884)

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• I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

  Jaime Hernández

  Done, Sides, Has Beens

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• Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Literature, Able, Enough

  Light Posters, Utah University, mrscienceut.net.

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• The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

  John Kricfalusi

  Style, Different, Generic

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• Pero, al fin y al cabo, el objetivo del arte es crear espacio, un espacio que no se vea comprometido por la decoración o la ilustración, un espacio en el que puedan vivir los temas de la pintura.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Space, Painting

  Frank Stella (1986). “Working Space”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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