2blowhards.com: Donald Pittenger on Illustration

In Donald Pittenger on Illustration, he cites some "official" support for his belief that illustration and fine art aren't all that different:

Although I have held these views for many years, I was pleased to have them corroborated by Burton Silverman in biographical notes to the exhibition catalog Sight and Insight: the Art of Burton Silverman (New York: Madison Square Press, 1998). On page 38 he recalls from childhood that "It also seems quite interesting to me now that, as a nine-year-old, I could not very well distinguish qualitative differences between Edward Burne-Jones�s and N.C. Wyeth�s pictures. Howard Pyle�s richly graphic drawings of King Arthur�s Knights seemed not far from an Albrecht Durer or Peter Breughel drawing. All of them presented an astounding ability to re-create the world with astonishing veracity, and so I did not discriminate between fine art and illustration".