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Illustrator Inspirational Quotes (9534)

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It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.
Brian Selznick
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The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.
John French Sloan
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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
Cornelia Funke
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An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.
Uri Shulevitz
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.
Brian Selznick
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Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.
Kate Greenaway
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As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of the things that a younger artist can look forward to is an emerging dealer who has a space that they can take over and build whatever will suit whatever aesthetic they find themselves in. In an art fair, you turn yourself into an object.
Lawrence Weiner
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
Jean Cocteau
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A painter is a choreographer of space.
Barnett Newman
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What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Edward Hopper
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Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me.
Stefan Sagmeister
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I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business. Except my life really isn't all that funny if you think about it.
Meg Cabot
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I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.
Robert McCloskey
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People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?
Masashi Kishimoto
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
David Hockney
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I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.
David Hockney
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If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.
Marjane Satrapi
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I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.
Cornelia Funke
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Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless
Art Spiegelman
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Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz
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There are no new ideas about female education.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
Michael Craig-Martin
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