I found great value in teaching students from the outset of their studies how to draw very realistically. Otherwise, you're starting deep into the alphabet instead of having started at the start. If you discard essential things like drawing, design,… — David Small Copy Share Image
Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much… — David Small Copy Share Image
I open journal, I look at the picture and I remember where I was. And I remember the time of day, the temperature of… — David Small Copy Share Image
I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I… — David Small Copy Share Image
Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think. — David Small Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the curriculum. There's… — David Small Copy Share Image
I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night because it… — David Small Copy Share Image
I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or another. So… — David Small Copy Share Image
Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes… — David Small Copy Share Image
I found great value in teaching students from the outset of their studies how to draw very realistically. Otherwise, you're starting deep into the… — David Small Copy Share Image
I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I used to… — David Small Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're… — David Small Copy Share Image
Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her… — David Small Copy Share Image
