Illustration Quotes

“The drawing shows me at a glance what would be tedious to find in a book.”

“Reading is not just about words. It's about pictures, too.”

“The illustrator's job is to get inside the author's head and between his lines, to find the one moment that crystallizes the story for the reader.”

“The basic purpose of a cover is to get the book picked up. It's that simple.”

“An illustrator is a translator. He is someone who translates a text into a picture.”

“The reason I do children's books is because I'm not a very good writer. I'm a better illustrator.”

“The pen is a severer critic than the brush.”

“When I'm illustrating a book, I'm the first one to see the characters, the scenes, the settings. I'm the first one to give them a look and a feel.”

“I try to get a mood, a feel for the story. I'm a mood illustrator.”

“I am an illustrator. I have to have a story.”

“It was an illustrator's dream. It's the kind of project that you wait your whole life for.”

“A picture book is a balancing act between picture and text.”

“With the exception of the walrus, all the animal characters are, I think, my own.”