"Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration.……" — John Howe

"Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly."

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17 Quotes by John Howe

John Howe has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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.…
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…
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…
I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France.…
More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how…

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More Admiration Quotes

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can… — Jane Austen
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long… — John Adams
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. — Ambrose Bierce
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. — Aeschylus
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of… — Jo Brand
I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot… — Wilford Brimley
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of… — Julie Burchill
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. — Dale Carnegie

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