Inspirational Illustration Quotes & Sayings

I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space. — Michelle Dockery

We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil. — Robert Aris Willmott

Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension. — Marcus Aurelius

Inking is meditation in liquid form... — J.H. Everett

Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it. — Louis L'Amour

What I remember most clearly is how it felt. I'd just finished painting a red fire engine-like the one I often walked past near my grandparents' house. Suddenly the teachers, whose names I've long forgotten, closed in on my desk. They seemed unusually impressed, and my still dripping fire engine was immediately and ceremoniously pinned up. I don't know what they might have said, but their unexpected attention and having something I'd made given a place of honor on the wall created an overwhelming and totally unfamiliar sense of pride inside me. I loved that feeling, and I wanted to feel it again and again. That desire, I suppose, was the beginning of my career.
I have no idea where my fire engine painting ended up, but I never forgot the basic layout. Several decades later, it served as the inspiration for this sketch for an illustration in a book called Why the chicken crossed the Road. — David Macaulay

At least one of the meanings of a symptom corresponds to the presentation of a sexual fantasy, while there is no such limit to the content of its other meanings. — Sigmund Freud

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel. — Walter Brueggemann

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration. — Boris Vallejo

If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say no to that? — Stephanie D'Abruzzo

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying ... There is always something you can do ... Create something, a play reading ... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there. — Deirdre O'Kane

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. — John Patrick

I like the Wu Tang Clan a lot. — Ethan Suplee

Not everyone is treated with such respect. But whenever my father sang, all the birds in the area would fall silent and listen. His voice was beautiful, high and clear and so filled with life it made you want to laugh and cry at the same time. — Suzanne Collins

If I have to live with it, then how can it be unbearable? — Aliya Whiteley

I will always choose to be an imbecile. I couldn't cut it as an old fashion, and dry gal. — Mary Sage Nguyen

The story rolls along like drumbeats from house to house. — Terry Farish