Top 64 Quotes About Illustrator
#2. Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
Andre Leon Talley
#3. 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
#4. Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
Bat For Lashes
#5. 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
#6. When I later discovered that she (illustrator Faith Jaques) was a compulsive reader who loved to be alone and kept cats because they are the only pets that allow you to be both, my adoration of Jaques and her work could only increase.
Lucy Mangan
#7. 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
#8. 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
#10. 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
#11. I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.
Philip Reeve
#12. Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
Ira Levin
#13. Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#14. I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some other historical ideas, as well as working with the illustrator David Wyatt on some sequels to my Victorian space opera 'Larklight.'
Philip Reeve
#16. The Biblical Illustrator was published in 66 volumes. To give you a sense of how comprehensive it is, volume 49 contains 588 pages on Galatians. And
Joseph S. Exell
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical artist from inside, and when he discovers confirmation of it in the outside world he feels that it has been there all the time.
Kenneth Clark
#21. I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
Natalie Babbitt
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
Jeannette Walls
#25. Usually, an author writes a manuscript that is handed in to the editor. The editor will then work with an art director to find just the right illustrator for the job, and off they go. Many times, the illustrator and author never meet.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#26. I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.
Dave McKean
#27. For a while, I just thought that I wanted to be an illustrator because that's all I wanted to do. I also did some sculpting. It was always very artsy and very feminine, everything that I did.
Jason Wu
#28. 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
#29. Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.
Claes Oldenburg
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that.
Adrian Tomine
#36. wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. Originally, these
Smashing Magazine
#37. The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.
Chris Riddell
#38. I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.
Tony Kushner
#39. As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
Robert T. Bakker
#40. God is a great illustrator especially when I look at the humankind; different races, different genders, different heights, different weights and different shapes.His illustrations are simply breath taking, full of details and very inspiring. His creativity is beyond great and He's a mighty God.
Euginia Herlihy
#41. I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together.
Sima Mittal
#42. I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illustrator, and I begin with black and white. If I need colour, I add it over the top. There's a calligraphic element to it ... it's about the texture of lines on the page.
Chris Riddell
#43. I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics.
Richard MacDonald
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.
Matthea Harvey
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.
Chris Van Allsburg
#51. I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
Trudi Canavan
#52. 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
#53. I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
Karl Lagerfeld
#54. You don't put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you're an illustrator - it's not part of it; it's not possible. You are a servant to the story.
Robert Ingpen
#55. ~Reading a book is like looking through a window!
Zetta Hupf
#56. I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.
Daniel Sean Kaye
#58. Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.
David Scheier
#59. This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered ...
Tim Perkins
#60. Sometimes I defy flower anatomy & other times I try and replicate it intricately!
Minnelli Lucy France
#61. Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.
Peggy A. Borel
#62. I adore the elegance of botanical realism but I also can't help but dream of my very own neo-surrealistic fantasy flowers, and so I paint and illustrate both; I always find myself between both of those worlds.
Minnelli Lucy France
#63. Sometimes we just need a little break from this thing we call 'life', and step into the cartoon life for a moment
Andrea L'Artiste
#64. Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes.
David Scheier
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