Illustrations Quotes

One of the most incredible moments I`ve ever had was sitting in Vincent`s trailer . . . I was showing him this first-edition book I have of the complete works of (Edgar Allan Poe), with really amazing illustrations. Vincent was going nuts over the drawings, and he started talking about The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). Then he closed the book and began to recite it to me in this beautiful voice, filling the room with huge sounds. Such passion! I looked in the book later, and it was verbatim. Word perfect. It was a great moment. I`ll never forget that.

One of the most incredible moments I`ve ever had was sitting in Vincent (Price)`s trailer... I was showing him this first-edition book I have of the complete works of Poe, with really amazing illustrations. Vincent was going nuts over the drawings, and he started talking about `The Tomb of Ligeia.` Then he closed the book and began to recite it to me in this beautiful voice, filling the room with huge sounds. Such passion! I looked in the book later, and it was verbatim. Word perfect. It was a great moment. I`ll never forget that.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He`s got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

I think the illustrations are just out of this world,

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.