Tony DiTerlizzi Quotes

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.

It's really an interesting problem, trying to earn a living and serve art and serve kids. What I try to create are these visual layers so that readers feel the possibility exists that there might be something in the book they never saw before.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

Through art, you create your own world.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.

A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'

Bringing words to life, storyboards show you things that words can't.

I like to think of an image as different from a photo.

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.