Colors, lines, geometric shapes…. Watercolors, pencils, acrylics…. Cut paper, collages, embroidery…. The forms taken by illustration are many and varied, enriching our visual world.
Through the settings and moods generated by the artists, illustrated storybooks evoke our moods, our past, our hopes. Reading illustrated books is a path to opening the imagination, a kind of magic that breeds happiness. Let’s open the cover on this wondrous and fascinating world and take an in-depth look at what’s inside!
Picture books unite images with literature, making them a type of creative work that merges the left brain and the right brain. -- Liu Hsu-kung
A good illustrator is a person who can think for themselves, and can tell stories. -- Hsiao Ching-lien
Illustrated books remind each adult that they were once a child. -- Page Tsou
It probably wouldn’t matter to anyone in Taiwan if there were one fewer deliveryman, but for there to be another illustrator, well, that might be very interesting. -- Hsu Ming-hung
The air in Bologna is full of passion for publishing. Both illustrators and publishers are anxious to get noticed. -- Sarah Ko
Drawing and painting for me are as natural and important as breathing. -- Cindy Wume
Images are a type of language. Through vision one can come into contact with so many different shapes, lines, and colors. It’s a rich form of happiness. -- Rex How
All intuition is built on reason. Literature, art, and music use reason to convey emotion. -- Hao Kuang-tsai