Quotes by Graeme Base - Page 1

Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.
Graeme Base / Author
Journey
Artist
Lying
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Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.
Graeme Base / Author
Journey
Patterns
Subtle
Lie
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I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.
Graeme Base / Author
Australia
Eight
Stars
Northern
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Whilst I love still hiding... games and puzzles to play, I'm not as imprisoned by that need to fill every corner with detail.
Graeme Base / Author
Hiding
Puzzles
Corner
Detail
Fill
Imprisoned
Whilst
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Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist.
Graeme Base / Author
Eleven
Twelve
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Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.
Graeme Base / Author
Optimistic
Ends
Stories
Thinking
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I'm a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think 'The Waterhole' is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.
Graeme Base / Author
Optimistic
Cycles
Optimistic Person
Relentlessly
Goes
In The End
Prevail
Though
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People kept asking, Whats your market? Ive got no idea at all other than me, an eleven year old kid in a 56-year-old body. But there are a lot of us out there.
Graeme Base / Author
Kids
Ideas
Years
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My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.
Graeme Base / Author
Film
One Day
Score
Record
Maybe
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People kept asking, 'What's your market?' I've got no idea at all other than me, an eleven year old kid in a 56-year-old body. But there are a lot of us out there.
Graeme Base / Author
No Idea
Me Body People
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I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.
Graeme Base / Author
Ideas
Looks
Want
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I guess I don't come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they don't match up, I find it frustrating.
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Baggage
Frustrating
Match
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You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPod and downloaded every piece of classical music that I had access to onto that.
Graeme Base / Author
Classical Music
Bought
Classical
Downloaded
Onto
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The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.
Graeme Base / Author
Australia
Humour
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There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's a picture book, but it works at so many levels, and it's fantastic.
Graeme Base / Author
Fantastic
Levels
Sublime
Wild
Many Levels
Picture Book
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I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry. Book publishing offered me the chance to be far more creative.
Graeme Base / Author
Advertising
Disillusionment
Illustrating
Publishing
Work Chance Me
Offered
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Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place.
Graeme Base / Author
Imagery
Likes
Stunning
This Generation
Profoundly
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I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.
Graeme Base / Author
Art
Book
Fun
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Some people can sit and enjoy the view... some people like to take photos to feel complete. I need to somehow possess it in some other way. I just have to somehow grasp it and take it home in a more fulsome way. It's where ideas come from.
Graeme Base / Author
Grasp
Photos
Possess
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I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it.
Graeme Base / Author
Cat
Exotic
Extravagant
Goldfish
Inspiration
Mother Nature
Ordinary
Stuff
Unusual
White
Yellow
Nature Mother Mother Nature
Few
Pets
Rabbit
Terms
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I've had an absolutely charmed life in every aspect of it. I do for my job what I would do for a hobby if it wasn't my job. Half the secret of happiness, I'm ecstatically happily married with three great kids, you know. It's been a blessed life.
Graeme Base / Author
Aspect
Blessed
Charmed
Life Happiness Great
Happily
The Secret Of
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It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty... when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I'd do every nut and rivet, and I'd do every scale on the dragon's back. It was just the way I was built.
Graeme Base / Author
Army
Drawing
Little Kid
Monsters
Tanks
Always Me Way
Scale
Detail
Dragon
Drove
Nut
Gritty
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I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School and then Melbourne High School. I liked to draw and write at school, and I liked books by J.R.R. Tolkien, A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame.
Graeme Base / Author
Australia
Eight
England
High School
Melbourne
Moved
Box
Books
Liked
Draw
Hill
Tolkien
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I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers.
Graeme Base / Author
Advertising
Graphic
Graphic Design
Publishers
Senior
Senior Year
Twelve
Art Work Design
Work Art Design
Studying
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It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.
Graeme Base / Author
Different Levels
Educate
Facilitate
Levels
Entertain
Explore
Holds
Readers
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I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers thought that's what to expect from Graeme Base. With 'The Sign of the Seahorse,' I took a step away from the puzzle-book genre - that was more of an adventure story.
Graeme Base / Author
Adventure
Genre
Base
Detail
Foot
Pedal
Readers
Sign
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I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling.
Graeme Base / Author
Finance
Childlike
Latter
Responsibility
Stuff
Wonder
Life Hope Good
Absolutely
Appalling
Area
Between
Childish
Easily
Often
Difference
Sort
Terribly
Grown-Up
Meaning
Well
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