Aaron Siskind

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

American Photographer

Samuel Ervin Beam

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. One, I rarely have anything to say. It's much more interesting for me to discover some meaning that you didn't know that you could create.

American Musician

Antony Gormley

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.

British Artist

Idries Shah

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

Indian Author

Edward Bok

It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

American Editor

Kate Bernheimer

I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

American Writer

Denise Mina

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

Scottish Writer

Michael Bergdahl

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

American Author

Bob Kane

The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.

American Artist

Use 'illustrative' when providing an example that helps clarify or explain your main point further.

Clarify Examples

'Illustrative' suggests that the example you provide will enhance the listener's understanding of the topic.

Enhance Understanding

When you refer to something as 'illustrative', it often involves a specific case or situation that exemplifies a broader concept.

Specific Cases

Use 'illustrative' for materials like diagrams or images that aid in visualizing or understanding content.

Visual Aid

'Illustrative' visuals should complement the text, not just repeat information, providing a new perspective or insight.

Complement Text

In an academic context, 'illustrative' figures should be referenced in the text and be clear and professionally presented.

Academic Papers

 calculate that, for illustrative purposes, if we do what I am showing you here, we can take enough carbon out of the atmosphere and safely store it in the grassland soils for thousands of years, and if we just do that on about half the world's grasslands

How to green the world's...

 worth a thousand words if you have a lot of pictures and you can create a very illustrative map with lots of information that is very very essential to understand these glaciers and their dynamics