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Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.

My life is an open book. With illustrations.

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.

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

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

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.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

The aim of art is to create space.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

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

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

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

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

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

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.

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

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

Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist.

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.

We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be.

Although we had a lot of villainy here in America, Adolf Hitler was certainly the most visible illustration of what would happen if fascism went unchallenged.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

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

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

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.

The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.

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

The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

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

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.

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

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

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

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

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.

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.

The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

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