Tom Wujec

What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together.

Canadian Author

Anthony Browne

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.

British Writer

Matthew Simpson

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.

American Clergyman

Danny DeVito

What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.

American Actor

Aaron Siskind

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

American Photographer

Mary Ellen Mark

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

Reinhard Bonnke

Every volcano is a powerful illustration of God's character. He is a Vesuvius of goodness, life, and energy.

German Clergyman

George Combe

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

American Educator

Henry James

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

American Writer

Brian Stelfreeze

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

American Artist

An illustration often serves as a visual aid, supporting text to make learning easier.

Visual Aid

Illustrations in books and articles make them more appealing and engaging to readers.

Enhancing Appeal

Different genres use illustration distinctively; children’s books are typically more illustrated than adult literature.

Genre-Specific

Use illustrations, like metaphors or analogies, to explain complex ideas in simple terms.

Clarifying Concepts

An illustration can reinforce understanding by showing practical applications of a theory.

Reinforcing Understanding

Illustrations provide supporting examples that strengthen an argument or presentation.

Supporting Argument

Illustration as a profession is commonly found in publishing, advertising, and graphic design.

Creative Careers

There are various techniques like sketching, digital painting, or collage used in illustration.

Illustration Techniques

In illustration, images are used to convey stories, often enhancing or complementing the narrative.

Storytelling Element

 because I was too busy writing poems, and flunking out, and I don't know what, sitting in cafes. But I picked it up and I started reading it and I thought, this book is amazing. I said, people should know about this book. So I decided it needed a few -- it needed a lift, it needed a few illustrations.

Maira Kalman: The...

 and this is a spread from a zine that I made last year when I -- I mean, I think I've let myself go a bit on the illustration front since. But, yeah. So I said on my blog that I wanted to start this publication for teenage girls and ask people to submit

Tavi Gevinson: A teen...

 but later as a less expensive option. And while today's mass produced cover illustrations are marketing tools, the cover designs of early books were made to order. Even spines have a history. Initially, they were not considered aesthetically important,

The evolution of the...

 Something no student of anatomy could do without the help of visuals. Because at the end of the day, whether you remember every little structure or not, these medical illustrations are what makes studying anatomy so intriguing. In looking at them,

The spellbinding art of...

 I use a technique of painstaking realism of editorial illustration from when I was a kid. I copied it and I never unlearned it -- it's the only style I know. And it's very kind of staid and formal. And meanwhile, I use nonsense, as you can see.

Bruce McCall: Nostalgia...

 Today, scholars work long and hard trying to predict what causes a bubble and how to avoid them. Tulip mania is an effective illustration of the underlying principles at work in a bubble and can help us understand more recent examples

What causes economic...

 the method of illustration helps that is that this is really old seeming it seems really old whereas something like this which is a a modification or a or a simulation of a natural environment seems in some ways kind of kind of

Predictions of tech's...

 vast event the largest calving event ever put on film and to give you a sense of scale because it's very hard I'll do something that no self-respecting photographer would ever do and put cheesy illustrations over his pictures

The Power of Photography...

 stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples,

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 Isn’t it a beautiful illustration of just how tender

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