Quotes and Sayings About Illustration

Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.
-- Albert Camus

#Men #Illustration #Order

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

#Suicide #Illustration #Married

Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am that I am. The girl is who she is. Some of her isness spills over and impregnates the entire universe. Objects and events cease to be mere representations of classes and become their own uniqueness; cease to be illustrations of verbal abstractions and become fully concrete. Then you stop being in love, and the universe collapses, with an almost audible squeak of derision, into its normal insignificance.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Girl #Being In Love #Illustration

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

#Illustration #Events #Religion And Politics

GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Science #Illustration #Lovely

LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Son #Men #Illustration

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

#Illustration #Hip Hop #Female

If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you bring in something else as an illustration you mustn't wander off into endless irrelevancies.
-- Anton Webern

#Illustration #Important #Want

It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.
-- Augustus William Hare

#Illustration #Giving #Speech

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

#Illustration #Violence #Stereotype

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

#Book #Rights #Illustration

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Illustration #Giving #People

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 #Illustration #Different

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

#Illustration #Color #Training

But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.
-- Chapman Cohen

#Running #Illustration #Two

[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views of those principles, and as evidence strengthening the system necessarily arising out of the admission of such principles, which... are neither more nor less than that no causes whatever have from the earliest time to which we can look back, to the present, ever acted, but those now acting; and that they never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert.
-- Charles Lyell

#Book #Views #Illustration

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

#Illustration #Color #Weight

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

#Witty #Illustration #Stories

I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book.
-- Chris Raschka

#Reading #Book #Illustration

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 #Illustration

Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone cant accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.
-- Christopher Golden

#Illustration #Drawing #Atmosphere

Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries, as well as lively and authoritative commentaries by some of today's leading neuroscientists. It will be enjoyed by professionals and general readers alike.
-- Dale Purves

#Book #Illustration #Mind

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.
-- Dav Pilkey

#Writing #Illustration #Stories

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

#Book #Thinking #Illustration

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

#Sex #Illustration #Heaven

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.
-- David Bolinsky

#Art #School #Illustration

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

#Photography #Illustration #Critics

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.
-- Edward Bellamy

#Illustration #Civilization #Careers

An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.
-- Edward Everett

#Memories #Character #Illustration

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.
-- Ellen Tauscher

#Cutting #Illustration #Class