Illustrator Quotes

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered...

~ Tim Perkins

When you cultivate love and kindness in your heart, everything around you becomes love and kindness.

~ Isa Zapata

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

~ Peggy A. Borel

Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

~ David Scheier

Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes.

~ David Scheier

The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, or scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged!

~ Funny

Children need to see themselves in books. They need to see their gender. They need to see their color, hair texture, their disability, themselves. Picture books are like many children’s first introduction to the world. Seeing yourself is almost like a message. It’s saying, you matter, you are visible, and you’re valuable

~ Christian Robinson

I have loved enough women to know how to paint.If I had loved fewer, I would be an illustrator; if I had loved more, I would be a poet.

~ Sarah Ruhl

With a glance back towards the house, he pulled the secret sketches from within. He'd been working at them on and off for a fortnight now, ever since he'd come across Cousin Eliza's fairy tales among Rose's things. Though they were written for children, magical stories of bravery and morality, they had made their way beneath his skin. The characters had seeped inside his mind and come alive, their simple wisdom a balm for his swirling mind, his ugly adult troubles. He had found himself in moments of distraction scribbling lines that had turned themselves into a crone at a spinning wheel, the Fairy Queen with her long thick plait, the Princess bird trapped in her golden cage.

~ Kate Morton