Quentin Blake Quotes

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• 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 to turn up,…
• Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
• I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer…
• A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
• It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
• Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
• I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to…
• The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
• I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.
• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
• With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
• Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

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