“To illustrate any text is also to interpret it.”
— Ali, 20th century)
Ali Quotes on Illustration
“Can you imagine illustration in modern novels? ... For instance, in Norman Mailer? They would have to be abstracts. Don’t you think? Sort of barbed wire and blotches?”
— Ali, 20th century)
“Beatrix Potter portrayed the world from a mouse’s- or rabbit’s- or small child’s-eye view. The vantage point in her exquisite watercolors varies from a few inches to a few feet from the ground, like that of a toddler.”
— Ali, 20th century)