Illustrating Quotes

• The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Space, Feelings

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Serenity, Energy

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

  Jim Rohn

  Philosophy, Personality, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 17, 2017

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• What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Hands, Ideas, Secret

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can do fine. There are great non-fiction writers, but people aren't necessarily going to say anything that reveals them as much as a picture might. Even their surroundings, in lot of cases, the things that meant the most to me were the things I noticed in their houses. I was always looking, as much as I was listening to them. I was looking around for clues as to why I was there.

  Miranda July

  Mean, People, House

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.

  Ernst Mayr

  Example, Doe, Definitions

  Ernst Mayr (2007). “What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.

  Dean Spade

  Order, People, Needs

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Powerful, Attitude

  Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.111, Penguin UK

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• I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Book, Passion, Writing

  Sunday Hindu Interview, devdutt.com. November 1, 2009.

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• Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

  Brian Selznick

  Writing, Doe, Surprise

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• 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

  Support, Stories, Given

  Teenreads Interview, www.teenreads.com. February 2007.

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• The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its arrangement, and all of its developing processes, are not due to human planning or oversight, but to the infinite wisdom and power of God.

  Andrew S. Draper

  Opportunity, Planning, Infinite

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• You need to know a lot about what's going on, but when it comes to making the work, I take almost an anti-intellectual stance. You've got to be stupid enough, in some ways, to plunge into something that you have no idea what it's about. If you know what you're going to do before you do it, you just end up illustrating an idea.

  Tim Zuck

  Stupid, Ideas, Intellectual

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• The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about plantation life and slavery, I try to find clients that will give me an opportunity to work on projects that will visualize those experiences of the enslaved African and people of color. I get to learn about my roots, and my artwork allows the reader into that world by creating images that are accessible.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Art, Opportunity, Color

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Past, Might, Documentaries

  "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

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• My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come away with a stronger impression of the basic message in the story I am illustrating.

  Floyd Cooper

  Emotional, Stronger, Messages

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.

  Floyd Cooper

  Writing, Artist, Firsts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• This WikiLeaks document dump is showing - it's demonstrating, it is illustrating - that there is no boundary between the media and the Democrat Party, that it's one and the same.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Media, Wikileaks

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's pretty damning. That's Hillary Clinton juxtaposed against the FBI Director Comey yesterday, clearly illustrating she lied.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Yesterday, Directors, Lied

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The left has been able to destroy conservatives, dispatch conservatives, to ruin conservatives simply on the basis of accusing them or illustrating them supposedly violating political correctness, by virtue of exposing what they think or say.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Political, Able

  "This Ad Won’t Hurt Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 10, 2016.

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• 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

  Moral, Advertising, Form

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Children should be encouraged to search out in nature the objects that illustrate Bible teachings, and to trace in the Bible the similitudes drawn from nature. They should search out, both in nature and in Holy Writ, every object representing Christ, and those also that He employed in illustrating truth. Thus may they learn to see Him in tree and vine, in lily and rose, in sun and star. They may learn to hear His voice in the song of birds, in the sighing of the trees, in the rolling thunder, and in the music of the sea. And every object in nature will repeat to them His precious lessons.

  Ellen G. White

  Song, Stars, Children

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• Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Book, Writing, Simple

  Source: collider.com

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• In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cameras, Directors, Firsts

  Zoetrope All-Story, Volume 5, No. 1., Spring 2001.

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• The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy , the motion and the other inner forces ... the modern artist is working with space and time , and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Space

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