Chapter Ninety Four: Illustrators

Some people have been kind enough

to call me a fine artist. I've always called

myself as illustrator. I'm not sure what

the difference is. All I know is that whatever

type of work I do, I try to give it my very best.

Art has been my life.

Norman Rockwell

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Information and inspiration are 

everywhere [...] history, art, architecture,

everything that an illustrator needs.

Europe is, after all, the land that has generated

most of the enduring myths and legends

of Western culture.

John Howe

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For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all.

It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind

of experience. And I think one can create

wonderful depth and meaning and

communication without using words. I started

out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and

caricature artist, so for me the visual

is primary.

Bill Plympton

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As an illustrator you need to understand

the human artist -- but having looked at and

understand nature, you must develop an ability

to look away and capture the balance between

what you've seen and what you imagine.

Quentin Blake

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After art college, I got a job as a medical

illustrator, and I was pretty good.

I had to imagine what was going on in the

operations because the photographs

just showed a mess.

Anthony Browne

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Before that I wanted to be a magazine

illustrator -- I probably would have

painted Gothic scenes.

Ira Levin

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I write plays and movies, I live and work

at the borderline between word and image

just as any cartoonist or illustrator does.

I'm not pure writer. I use words as the score

for kinetic imagistic representations.

Tony Kushner

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When you start writing a picture book, you

have to write a manuscript that has enough

language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having

to cut it out because you don't want any of

the language to be redundant to the pictures

that are being drawn.

Daniel Handler

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I'm a classically trained painter, and I was

an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I

created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 [Los Angeles] Olympics.

Richard MacDonald

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