John Howe Quotes

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• Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
• God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith…
• Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.
• What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.
• Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.
• All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a…
• I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.
• Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
• Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring…
• I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
• I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a…
• I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really…
• More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if…
• My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a…
• Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number…
• What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and…
• Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

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