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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. (p. 12) — James Gurney

My life will be the best illustration of all my work. — Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual. — Bill Johnson

The eyebrows are the punctuation marks of the face. — Dave Horowitz

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.
[Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.] — Horace

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

... nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science. — Yann Martel

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected. — Richard MacDonald

The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other. — A.W. Tozer

A pointed illustration indeed of the old adage that "extremes meet". — Charlotte Bronte

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed - one cannot merge from one into the other. — N. C. Wyeth

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person. — Marilyn Vos Savant

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

A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one. — Carl Linnaeus

My life is an open book. With illustrations. — Hugh Hefner

I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash. — Anthony Browne

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

The aim of art is to create space. — Frank Stella

Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art. — John Burnside

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over. — Max Cannon

The deeper the illustration the strengthened the value — Sunday Adelaja

That innovator is the aforementioned Hugh Thomson, who might be called the Colin Firth of Austen-inspired book illustration." (P. 52) — Devoney Looser

Who you love is an illustration of you ... but whomever loves you back is you ... in HD. — Ingrid Weir

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

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing. — John Morrison

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

My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. — W.E.B. Du Bois

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

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. Herbert — H. H. Asquith

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

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

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography. — E. J. Hughes

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism. — Noam Chomsky

I have a BFA in illustration. — Mike Shinoda

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms. — Mika.

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. — Wilson Follett

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype, — Barbara Kruger

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. — John Burroughs

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An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography. — Herb Lubalin

The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity. — Richard A. Proctor

I've done a bit of teaching, but I gave it up - I felt uneasy teaching illustration to people who hadn't yet learned to draw. — Michael Foreman

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. — John Howe

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? — Henry James

I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation. — Dave Cooper

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

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

He had seen her painted sign by the road: Skin Illustration! Illustration instead of tattoo! Artistic! — Ray Bradbury

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

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently. — Richard Brookhiser

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. — George Combe

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

Libraries were a perfect illustration of human's search for truth and the frustration at never finding it. — Jonathan Ryan

I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half. — Molly Crabapple

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

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

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument. — Chauncey Depew

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

1One day Jesus taught the apostles to keep praying and never stop or lose hope. He shared with them this illustration: — Brian Simmone

To demonstrate the nature of one who would enter the kingdom is to use an illustration — Sunday Adelaja

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know. — Albert Camus

I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like. — Robert H. Schuller

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration. — Francis Bacon

Inking is meditation in liquid form... — J.H. Everett

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

She always seemed dead anyway, but nicely so, like an illustration or an advertisement. — Lucia Berlin