“I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.” PeopleStoriesLove IsDrawsReally GreatAmazing PeopleIllustrators Author:Brian Selznick
“I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.” ThinkingWritingStoriesCartoonistIllustrators Author:Chris Ware
“When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J.K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing — she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision.” PeopleGivingFeelsWritingBookDifferentStoriesEasyResponsibilityVisionRichCreaturesDrawsMoodSettingSettingsAtmosphereVisualsDescriptionFeels RightIllustrators Author:Mary GrandPre
“An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that's what you hold on to, and that's what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there.” ThinkingWritingMindBelieveKindBookWholeStoriesFallNextWishMy OwnWrittenUniqueAddFalling In LoveClosestIllustratorsIllustrating Author:Maurice Sendak
“Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.” IfsWayMindDifferentStoriesArtistEgoSakeTricksDifferent WaysIllustrationIllustrators Author:Maurice Sendak