An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that.

— Unarine Ramaru

As the boat drew nearer to shore, and tiny dots in the distance became seagulls, she opened the book across her lap and gazed at the beautiful black-and-white sketch of a woman and a deer side by side in the clearing of a thorny forest. And somehow, though she could not read the words, the little girl realized the knew this picture's tale. Of a young princess who traveled a great distance across the sea to find a precious, hidden item belonging to someone she dearly loved.

— Kate Morton

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

— Richard Brookhiser

At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sense that 'Wow, I can draw' or in my case 'Wow, I can read'... You feel you have what's called a talent, but as you become an adult, if you hope to make things, you have to give up the preoccupation with talent otherwise you'll spend your life painting beautiful pictures of fruit bowls that look like fruit bowls.

— Zadie Smith

Before he got too far, he thought he smelled a fire. No sooner did he blink before he sensed something dire. He heard a sound and froze, danger tickling his nose. His ears perked up as tiny cries of capture rose.

— J.Z. Bingham

From an illustration in her "Animals of a Bygone Era": a Leptictidium, an extinct rabbit-like animal who left no descendants, says: "Too bad, because we were really cute.

— Maja Säfström

I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.

— Shih-t'ou

If I live... I will live unafraid... I will live, so all can see, I am not ashamed of who I am or what I'm designed to be!"-The Great Mephisto

— Daniel Von der Ahe

I had a dream about you last night. I was writing a ‘Sex for dummies-Christians That Secretly What to be Porn Stars-1st edition.’ And you helped me with the illustrations.

— Crystal Woods