Quentin Blake

I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

— Quentin Blake

Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

— Quentin Blake

“I thought that if I couldn’t make a living as an artist, at least I shouldn’t starve. By the time I had…

— Quentin Blake

I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

— Quentin Blake

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It…

— Quentin Blake

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

— Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

— Quentin Blake

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it…

— Quentin Blake

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

— Quentin Blake

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going…

— Quentin Blake

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

— Quentin Blake

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

— Quentin Blake

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

— Quentin Blake

Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

— Quentin Blake

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

— Quentin Blake

I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional…

— Quentin Blake

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me,…

— Quentin Blake

“I suppose that really I had a training or education not so very different from a lot of other artists and illustrators…

— Quentin Blake

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an…

— Quentin Blake

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and…

— Quentin Blake

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that…

— Quentin Blake

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just…

— Quentin Blake

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

— Quentin Blake

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

— Quentin Blake

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like…

— Quentin Blake