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When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
With the duckets that I now have safe, I think I will retire at 66 years of age, praise God, in good health.
As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.
I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.
I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
There has to be the right pacing of images to tell the story. I'm always stunned at how little you can put in.
I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
I was the funny, outgoing kid who didn't understand how he could keep getting mistaken for a nerd nobody liked.
For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.
(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.
A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.
I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.
Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.
I think 'The Road' is a good example of a book everyone should read, but I wouldn't recommend it to young kids.
I think parents generally know what's best for their children. But I suppose it's possible to be overprotective.
I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.
One of my favorite books is 'Armadillo Rodeo', and I got the idea from traveling to Texas and seeing armadillos.
When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.
What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further.
My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager the MEATLESS TOFU VILLAGER
The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I'm doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.
Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.
My optimism has helped me through some hard times. If you try to send out good things, good things come back to you.
If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let them be accursed at His coming. God save you from your fate. Amen!
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
Far Out is never far enough because one challenge, if it is worthy at all, has to be followed by a greater challenge.
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are.
If you're just sitting around home it's just too easy to sit around and smoke pot all day and never get anything done.
My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.
Wherefor are you knowing it? If you stacked all of the Gorg in the galaxy on top of eachother, the Gorg would kill you.
I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.
I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that includes the writing process.
I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.