Quotes by Illustrators - Page 2

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
There must be more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak
Of what are you afraid my child? inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh sir! the flowers they are wild " replied the timid creature.
Peter Newell
The life of the creative man is led directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Saul Steinberg
Doodling is the brooding of the hand.
Saul Steinberg
There was an old man who said "How Shall I flee from this horrible cow? I will sit on this stile and continue to smile Which may soften the heart of that cow."
Edward Lear
If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly and [if] there is no situation to face it falls away of its own weight.
Florence Scovel Shinn
William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.
Maurice Sendak
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
William Thackeray
As a beauty I am not a star There are others more handsome by far But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it. It's the people in front get the jar.
Anthony Euwer
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.
Maurice Sendak
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
we will always be with u. we internalize traits we observe in others as a way to honor and remeber them. we are all living memorials
Jomny Sun
Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.
Jeanette Winter
Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers
Chris Van Allsburg
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
Brian Selznick
He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
Cornelia Funke
It me birthday and nobody came...Bigfoot decide do something nice for self for big day and sneak in they house at night and pick out own present and blow out flickering candle of life in they brains. Make a wish, jerks.
Graham Roumieu
Today is the first day in history.-One of Nathan's Daily GemsFrom the 'Book Store ON Main Street'Seal Beach, CA
Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
Remember: Writing is drawing.
Danny Gregory
I had never been interested in boys and had no notion that I ever would, seeing being in love and loving as a great tangle in which you could lose your head as well as your heart. Yet standing there that afternoon looking at the young man. I could well see how such knots in life were made.
Sally Gardner
You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tree has stood here all along. What do you make of that, boy?
Natalie Babbitt
This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the dark with Red Hot Chili Peppers playing.
Mariko Tamaki
Any act would be forgiven him, but the act itself would remain; what he would leave in the world would be the shame and hurt he forced upon others. This could not be.
David Kirk
Her face collapsed like a bad poem
Marge Simon
Remember my words: Be truthful, be kind to one another, and you will attain peace. We will meet again in another life.
Jeanne M. Lee
Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!
Carmela Dutra
Life has its insidious way of crawling its way back into your sphere and you’re dumbed down again by so many distractions including work obligations, social niceties and mountains of clothes washing.
Josh Langley
Let me first talk about our brains as a personal radio telescope. Let me talk first about its wonderful built-in wiring for tuning out the static of our civilization in order to better tune in its symphony.
E.L. Konigsburg
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
Tomie dePaola
Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.
Cornelia Funke
Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from my cold, dead, withered hands, and even then, they will be hard pressed to take them from me.
H.L. Stephens
there are NO rules, merely suggestions
Keri Smith
There was five golden rules. My dad made me write them over and over until I knew them like I knew my own name...Number five: never have a fire in the daytime, 'cause people could see the smoke and come and get us.Number four: if I ever see anyone other than my dad, I run, and keep running.Number three: always say my prayers, so as God don't get mad at me and decide to come make me sick too.Numer two: never forget to pray for my momma, 'cause she was the best and prettiest lady God ever made.Number one: never, ever leave the woods.
Jeff Lemire
All right, let's consider some history here. I see a number of girls are wearing pants. This used to be frowned upon. In 1938, Helen Hulick was jailed for wearing slacks -- put behind bars.Do you think society should have the right to jail or punish you for what you choose to wear?
Svetlana Chmakova
Have we ever wondered a mothers silent cries? Her struggles, her fears and her worries? Do we ever have time for this in our busy lives? Have we ever thought of the sacrifices she has done in order to make our lives happier, and her dreams cut short to make our dreams come true?
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. "Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time.""I hope so," replied Moominpappa. "Pass me a banana, please dear.
Tove Jansson
Moominmamma had got up very early to pack their rucksacks, and was bustling to and fro with wooly stockings and packets of sandwiches, while down by the bridge Moominpappa was getting their raft in order."Mamma, dar," said Moomintroll, "we can't possibly take all that with us. Everyone will laugh.""It's cold in the Lonely Mountains," said Moominmamma, stuffing in an umbrella and a frying pan. "Have you got a compass?""Yes," answered Moomintroll, "but couldn't you at least leave out the plates -- we can easily eat off rhubarb leaves.
Tove Jansson
Oh!" said Moominmamma with a start, "I believe those were mice disappearing into the cellar. Sniff, run down with a little milk for them." Then she caught sight of the suitcase which stood by the steps. "Luggage too," thought Moominmamma. "Dear me -- then they've come to stay." And she went off to look for Moominpappa to ask him to put up two more beds -- very, very small ones.
Tove Jansson
Any time you design a character for a Disney picture, especially a fairy tale, it's going to become the definitive design for that character, so you don't want to hack something out. You need to put in the kind of care it warrants if it's going to live in history.
Glen Keane
Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
Shiro Amano
Why is it considered so glorious to kill an enemy, when it is not considered contemptible to create one?
Anne E.G. Nydam
There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.
Janny Wurts
You are free. The world is yours. got take it.
Brom
Life is too precious to be left to chance
Walter Moers
All the various time travel devices used by Verne and Bert were stored in the repository, Poe explained, including the ones that had never quite worked as they were meant to. There was one that resembled a blue police box from London—“Stolen by a doctor with delusions of grandeur,” said Poe—one that was simply a large, transparent sphere—“Created by a scientist with green skin and too much ego,” said Verne—and one that was rather ordinary by comparison.“This one looks like an automobile,” John said admiringly, “with wings.”“The doors open that way for a reason,” Verne explained, “we just never figured out what it was. The inventor of this particular model tried integrating his designs into a car, an airplane, and even a steam engine train. He was running a crackpot laboratory in the Arizona desert, and he never realized that it was not his inventions themselves, but his proximity to some sort of temporal fluctuation in the local topography, that allowed them to work.” “What happened to him?” asked Jack.“He’d get the machines up to one hundred and six miles per hour,” said Bert, “and then he’d run out of fuel and promptly get arrested by whatever constabulary had been chasing him. The sad part was that Jules figured out if he’d just gone two miles an hour faster, he’d likely have been successful in his attempt.
James A. Owen
There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years," Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen.
Teresa Flavin
A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord.
Teresa Flavin
The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.
Teresa Flavin
That's the thing about time travel — you're always moving forward, even when you go back.
James A. Owen
Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.
Hope Larson
Let us learn to adapt our ways to the generosity of Nature. Let us learn to care, yet without letting care itself bring us down. Let us learn to think, yet without letting thought be our only master. Let us learn to die, yet without believing in death.
Patrick Woodroffe
I’ve had many crushes before, but none so deep as this. Your scent’s the only thing I crave; you’re the only one I miss.
Veronica Nagorny
It’s certainly TOUGH being AWESOME all the time, but I do it so the kids have someone to look up to!
Tanya Masse
Acknowledge and voice the positives LOUDER than the negatives.
Tanya Masse
They are not grey roots! This is my new fifty shades of grey OMBRE hairstyle!
Tanya Masse
He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.
David S.E. Zapanta
As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.
David S.E. Zapanta
To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.
David S.E. Zapanta
Can’t call ‘em zombies anymore,” sighed Manny. He seemed almost wistful. “Now we gotta be all politically correct. It’s like the Cold Wars never happened.
David S.E. Zapanta