Frank Kelly Freas

“The illustrator's job is to get inside the author's head and between his lines, to find the one moment that crystallizes the story for the reader.”

“The basic purpose of a cover is to get the book picked up. It's that simple.”

“What I'm trying to do is make the viewer use his imagination.”

“A good science fiction story is a story about people, with a problem which they solve by scientific means. If it's just a story about the gadgets, it's not a good story.”

“You can get an awful lot of truth into a caricature.”

“I paint what I see, not what you see.”

“My job is to give you a window into another world.”

“Humor is an essential part of the human condition. Why should science fiction be any different?”

“I have painted so many pictures, I have forgotten half of them.”

“When you look at one of my paintings, I want you to feel something. Anything. As long as it's not indifference.”