Battles Quote by Lois Lowry

“I earnestly hope that all children will spoil this book by painting the illustrations. I wanted to do this myself but the publishers would…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Certain artists in print or paint flourish, like babies-to-be, in confined spaces.”

— Ian McEwan

“Character, that subtle art, disappeared among them during those days and nights, existed only in a book or on a painted wall.”

— Michael Ondaatje

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and…

— Anthony Browne

“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Painting is the grandchild of Nature.”

— Rembrandt Van Rijn

“I have enormous respect for the reader. They are able to take symbols from a page that an author has invented, and turn them…

— Lynette Willows

“The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might suddenly dissolve.”

— Chaim Potok

“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.”

— William Gaddis

“I write for the child in everybody,that part of us that is aware and open and courageous. It's also that part of us that…

— Madeleine L’Engle

“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.”

— Deb Caletti

“Every painting tells a story.”

— Adrienne Posey