The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.
I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.
In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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