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An illustration is a visualization or a depiction made by an artist, such as a drawing, sketch, painting, photograph, or other kind of image of things seen, remembered or imagined, using a graphical representation.
19th century
- "What is the use of a book", thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), ch. 1
- Why did you make the Lady of Shalott, in the illustration, with her hair wildly tossed about as if by tornado? ... I didn’t say that her hair was blown about like that ... Why did you make the web wind round and round her like the threads of a cocoon? ... I did not say it floated round and round her.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson to William Holman Hunt (c. 1888–1905), reported in W. H. Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1905)
20th century
- A good illustrator may draw from models but knows how to forget them.
- Art Young, His Life and Times (1939)
- To illustrate any text is also to interpret it.
- Alison Lurie, Don’t Tell the Grown-Ups (1990)
- Beatrix Potter portrayed the world from a mouse’s- or rabbit’s- or small child’s-eye view. The vantage point in her exquisite watercolors varies from a few inches to a few feet from the ground, like that of a toddler.
- Alison Lurie, Don’t Tell the Grown-Ups (1990)
- Can you imagine illustration in modern novels? ... For instance, in Norman Mailer? They would have to be abstracts. Don’t you think? Sort of barbed wire and blotches?
- Alice Munro, Open Secrets (1994)
21st century
- Illustration is a very old form, far older than the novel, balanced somewhere in between painting and literature but belonging to neither.
- Shirley Hughes, A Life Drawing (2002)
- I cannot imagine how it must feel for an author to see someone else’s interpretation of their own inner vision. I am constantly amazed at how appreciative most of them manage to be.
- Shirley Hughes, A Life Drawing (2002)
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