David’s Books
“I had no formal training in book illustration, but it seems as if that is the career I was heading toward all my artistic life. Illustration was not taught at the graduate art department I attended. There, the term ‘illustrative’ was pronounced with the upper lip scalloped, as if one had just tasted something repellent. But every artist I ever admired was, more or less, an illustrator: Rembrandt, Daumier, Kollwitz, Heinrich Kley, Doré (the list went on). The urge to illustrate seemed like a physical defect I could not disguise from my instructors. When, at last, I took up illustration as a profession, I plunged into it with joy. Since then, I have not made one picture that has not been connected to some sort of publication and, for me, it has been a wonderful experience.”
- DS
