Quotes by Chris Riddell - Page 1

Wherever there are words, let there be pictures.
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Words
Pictures
Wherever
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Lose your inhibitions about drawing and just do it.
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Drawing
Just Do It
Lose
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I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.
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Literacy
Visual
Engine
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The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.
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Writing Process
Illustrator
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Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.
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Medicine
Psychiatric
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I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's mask, I achieve utter anonymity.
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Achieve
Anonymity
Mask
Addition
Burglar
Utter
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The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.
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Allowing
Charcoal
Manipulate
Images
Pencil
Tool
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I want to show how much fun you can have drawing... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity.
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Drawing
Shared
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My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared.
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Draw
Drew
Page
Shared
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School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.
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Alchemy
Enormous
Bringing
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No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.
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Cartoon
Comment
Humour
Great Sense
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I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.
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Mark
Draw
Page
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Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.
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Great
Excellent
Hands
Good Great Start
Open
Doodle
Hold
Line
Making
Pencil
Start
Wherever
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I'm interested in illustration in all its forms. Not only in books for children but in posters, prints and performance as a way of drawing people into books and stories.
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Drawing
Posters
Forms
Children People Way
Prints
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The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
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Childhood
Lion
Mine
Naming
Struck
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I don't feel uncomfortable in forbidding institutions, and work with, say, prisons or psychiatric institutions could be one of the things that evolve out of the Laureateship.
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Evolve
Psychiatric
Uncomfortable
Forbidding
Prisons
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As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.
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Computers
Digital
Dread
Publishing
Resolution
Screens
Android
Bright
Challenged
Grip
Tablet
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When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.
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Art School
Enthusiastic
Polite
Publishers
Response
Visiting
Drawings
Illustrations
Met
Search
Showing
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I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.
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Another Way
Basics
Drawing
Notion
Remove
Afford
Precious
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There are loads of fan sites for the 'Edge,' including deviant art, song lyrics using 'Edge' language, multiple entries on Wikipedia, there are even some 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' games all about the 'Edge.'
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Millionaire
Multiple
Wikipedia
Edge
Loads
Sites
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Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.
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Florence
Gothic
Shrinking
Treasure
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Edward
Master
Illustrated
Masterpieces
Sequel
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In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.
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Animated
Diaries
Austere
Illustrated
Illustrations
Permitted
Texts
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I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illustrator, and I begin with black and white. If I need colour, I add it over the top. There's a calligraphic element to it... it's about the texture of lines on the page.
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Add
Black And White
Colour
Texture
Element
Illustrator
Page
Stretch
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As a child, I copied Tenniel's illustrations from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' obsessively, particularly his drawing of the white rabbit in waistcoat and frockcoat, umbrella tucked under one arm and a fob watch in paw, a look of suppressed panic in his eye.
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Drawing
Panic
Umbrella
Wonderland
Adventures
Alice
Arm
Copied
Illustrations
Paw
Rabbit
Suppressed
Tucked
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Fans write to us via our publisher and more than ever via the Internet, blogs and fan sites, and good writers should be actively seeking out that interaction. Gone are the days when writers are dead or hidden away in dusty attics; nowadays, you've got to get out there.
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Blogs
Interaction
Seeking
Actively
Dusty
Hidden
Nowadays
Publisher
Sites
Via
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Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.
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Blake
Brilliance
Chemistry
Illustrator
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A drop in younger children visiting libraries is of great concern. As children's laureate, I am passionate about the role of libraries, both in schools and in the wider community. They are unique places where children can begin their journey as readers, as well as being creative hubs.
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Journey
Concern
Creative
Passionate
Unique
Visiting
Begin
Younger
Drop
Laureate
Libraries
Places
Readers
Schools
Wider
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I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately.
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Drawing
Term
Addressing
Fundamental
Have Fun
Laureate
Passionately
Pencil
Surprised
Whilst
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