Quotes by Illustrators - Page 19

We create our work for children not because they're "cute," but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.
Mo Willems
All adults should strive to be more like children.
Lorin Morgan-Richards
Koji pulled Ruben onto the next cog. Together, they became part of the space between things.
Bruce Whatley
The most important question I ask myself as a parent is this. How can I best help my children be fully themselves and happy with who they are in the world, however they show up.
Lehla Eldridge
Soeur Marie Emelie"Soeur Marie Emelieis little and very old:her eyes are onyx,and her cheeks vermilion,her apron wide and kindand cobalt blue.She comfortsgenerations and generationsof children,who are "new"at the convent school.When they are eight,they are already up to her shoulder,they grow up and go into the world,she remains,forever,always incredibly old,but incredibly never older...She has an affinity with the hens,When a hen dies,she sits down on a bench and cries,she is the only grown-up, whose tears are not frightening tears.Children can weep without shame, at her side...Soeur Marie Emelie...her apron as wide and kindas skies on a summer dayand as clean and blue.
Caryll Houselander
How much blood will it take to make them stop? How many more children must die?
Brom
It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time.
Mark Haddon
One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.
Ezra Jack Keats
Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!
Maurice Sendak
I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death. Nor do I think they should read only about things that they understand. '…a man’s reach should exceed his grasp.' So should a child’s. For myself, I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.(from the author's acceptance speech for the Caldecott award)
Barbara Cooney
But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up - we love you so!”And Max said, “No!”The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye.
Maurice Sendak
You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
Maurice Sendak
I think the idea of simply "enduring to the end" is a terrible philosophy and an awful way to live one's life. How you spend your days is how you live your life, and if you're spending them "enduring" anything then you're doing it wrong.
James A. Owen
When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.
Carmela Dutra
Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?
Maira Kalman
After an Indian meal they went back to Jamie's flat and Tony did at least two things to him on the sofa that no one had ever done to him before then came back and them again the following evening, and suddenly life became very good indeed.
Mark Haddon
AWESOME things come to those who focus on the positive, recognize the blessings, find the humor and never give up!
Tanya Masse
Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.
Janny Wurts
Inner negativity will attract negative energies from the universe. So be watchful of your thoughts. Don't be a magnate of negativity.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
People can be tough as hell. They can go through some really heavy stuff... with a genuine smile...
Adam Scythe
There is an implicit recognition here that important things in life are not always immediately visible, and can't always be named, or even fully understood. Others still are entirely imaginary -- like a red tree growing suddenly in a room -- although this does not make them any less real.
Shaun Tan
For the world is a hard place and nothing comes without a price.
Brom
It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.
Sally Gardner
Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.
Tony DiTerlizzi
Sometimes when you're upset it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better. (131)
Charise Mericle Harper
I have a subconscious list of rules for how reality should work. I did not develop these rules on purpose, and most of them don’t make sense – which is disturbing when you consider that they are an attempt to govern the behavior of reality – but they exist, and they play a large role in determining how I react to the things that happen to me. Large enough that a majority of the feelings I feel are simply a reaction to reality not complying with my arbitrary set of rules. Reality doesn’t give a shit about my rules, and this upsets me.
Allie Brosh
Passion. As you can see, I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. And you know what? In the whole silly business, the only thing that really matters is passion. It comes and it goes. At first it just comes to you free of charge, and you don't understand, and you waste it. And then it becomes a thing to nurture.
Tove Jansson
I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;And in small compass the dark waters
Mervyn Peake
You have the courage and will to overcome your fear and do what's required.
Henry H. Neff
Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself."I'm never afraid," answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here.
Tove Jansson
Then -- they saw the Groke. Everybody saw her. She sat motionless on the sandy path at the bottom of the steps and stared at them with round, expressionless eyes.She was not particularly big and didn't look dangerous either, but your let that she was terribly evil and would wait for ever. And that was awful.Nobody plucked up enough courage to attack. She sat there for a while, and then slid away into the darkness. But where she had been sitting the ground was frozen!
Tove Jansson
Not one adventure in a whole day," said Sniff, who was taking his turn at steering now the current was slower. "Just grey banks and grey banks, and not even an adventure.""I think it's very adventurous to float down a winding river," said Moomintroll. "You never know what you'll meet round the next corner. You always want adventures, Sniff, and when they come you're so frightened you don't know what to do.""Well, I'm not a lion," said Sniff reproachfully. "I like small adventures. Just the right size.
Tove Jansson
Courage was something John Reckless only ever wished he had. Courage was not a given; it was acquired, earned. You had to take the difficult paths, and John had always picked the easy ones.
Cornelia Funke
It don't matter what happens, if you're only srong and have great courage.
Lois Lenski
Your opinion should be based on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears & feel with your own heart.
Tanya Masse
Take a look and pick up a book, you never know what you might just find.
Carmela Dutra
You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them...
Cornelia Funke
Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it.
Janosch
How To Be An Explorer Of The World1. Always Be LOOKING (notice the ground beneath your feet.)2. Consider Everything Alive & Animate3. EVERYTHING Is Interesting. Look Closer.4. Alter Your Course Often.5. Observe For Long Durations (and short ones).6. Notice The Stories Going On Around You.7. Notice PATTERNS. Make CONNECTIONS.8. DOCUMENT Your Findings (field notes) In A VAriety Of Ways.9. Incorporate Indeterminacy.10. Observe Movement.11. Create a Personal DIALOGUE With Your Environment. Talk to it.12. Trace Things Back to Their ORIGINS.13. Use ALL of the Senses In Your Investigations.
Keri Smith
Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.
Kris Waldherr
Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.
Lesley Howarth
Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.
Lesley Howarth
The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.
Lesley Howarth
.......only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.Powerful.
Cornelia Funke
We three alone have the speed, skill and power to do what must be done', said Grimalkin. 'You have the Destiny Blade and Bone Cutter — in addition to the talents inherited from your mother. Alice wields powerful magic, and I am Grimalkin.
Joseph Delaney
Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.
Janny Wurts
Happiness has to exist in the mind before it can exist in life
Lorin Morgan-Richards
Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them.
Lesley Howarth
You know, voices can't hurt you if you don't listen to them.
Adam Scythe
We sit in the ruin, each reading a book, or three of us read out of four. Three different voices speak to us. We have taught the children to read again this week. Here, where there is no voice, apart from ours, they are desperate for any other. They will even sing to themselves, sometimes. The boy whistles. He makes his voice croak. He sings the same thing again, but breathing in. A bird echoes the first notes of Vivaldi.
Joanna Walsh
There are so many of you, and you are still just the way I thought I'd grow up, with all that was enviably grown-up about you: the lace tops with modesty inserts, and the spangles as if for nights out, the stiff hair, the cardigans grown over with a fungus of secondary sexual characteristics--bristling with embroidery and drooping with labial frills.
Joanna Walsh
It is sometimes hard to be a family.
Maurice Sendak
She laughed a bit at the simple beauty of it all - the white paper, the elegant arc, the soft green grass; and, beside her, the purple backpack, Grandad's golden straw hat, the sky a pale-blue umbrella embracing the whole town
Peter Carnavas
What I love most about my home is who I share it with.
Tad Carpenter
The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.
Tove Jansson
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vinesLived twelve little girls in two straight linesIn two straight lines they broke their breadAnd brushed their teeth and went to bed.They left the house at half past nineIn two straight lines in rain or shine-The smallest one was Madeline.
Ludwig Bemelmans
As Christians we are called to make disciples of all the nations, meeting them where they are and serving them in ways that are relevant and meaningful. That is the challenge: as the church, to remain relevant and meaningful, in efforts to reach all people where they are in a way they need.
Kellen Roggenbuck
It is only by choice that our true nature is revealed.
J.D. Netto
Thus Arthur achieved the adventure of the sword that day and entered into his birthright of royalty. Wherefore, may God grant His Grace unto you all that ye too may likewise succeed in your undertakings. For any man may be a king in that life in which he is placed if so he may draw forth the sword of success from out of the iron of circumstance. Wherefore when your time of assay cometh, I do hope it may be with you as it was with Arthur that day, and that ye too may achieve success with entire satisfaction unto yourself and to your great glory and perfect happiness.
Howard Pyle
Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.
Walter Moers