Illustrating Quotes

“For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ("Another empty room")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“فاللغة لا تنطق بذاتها، وإنما ينطق بها أهلها، لفان تغيروا تغيرت.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“What really got me thinking about illustrating children's books was I discovered Hugh Thompson's illustrations for The Vicar of Wakefield in my mother's library and I looked at it and said, 'That's what I'm going to do.”
― Tasha Tudor, The Private World of Tasha Tudor

“I’ve had so many influences and sources of inspiration as an illustrator that it is impossible to name just one. I loved Aubrey Beardsley when I was a student, and then Edmund Dulac and other Golden Age illustrators made a big impact, as well as Victorian painters like Richard Dadd and Edward Burne-Jones. My long-term heroes though are Albretch Durer, Brueghel, Hieronymous Bosch, Jan Van Eyck, Leonardo, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Turner and Degas. What most of them have in common is brilliant draughtsmanship and a strong linear or graphic quality. Most are also printmakers. The one I keep going back to and who fascinates me the most is JMW Turner, the greatest watercolourist.”
― Alan Lee

“A good exercise session leaves an athlete person gasping for air, sweating, and exhausted, and so is writing and drawing for writers and artists, but the brain is what pants and feels exhaustion.
Writing and drawing are a great mental effort that equals tiring physical training.
When you write and draw, you need to use all your brain muscles to transfer your ideas into the paper. Concentration, knowledge, experience, creativity, imagination, all unite, trying hard to finish a text or an art piece.”
― Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

“In my opinion, writers and illustrators are both deep thinkers.
While writers use words and sentences to tell a story, illustrators nowadays use their talent and art to say the same story with their drawings and illustrations.
Both skills, writing, and drawing need much intellect, patience, determination, hard work, persistence, and practice.”
― Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

“I raised the mystics up to the ladder of knowledge, in order to illustrate that one cannot be a narcissist when you are being praised by others.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism