"I suppose illustration tends to live in the……" — Quentin Blake
"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 be taken less seriously."
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13 Quotes by Quentin Blake
Quentin Blake has 13 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and…
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
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I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
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More Atmosphere Quotes
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in…
— Charles Baudelaire
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live…
— Alain de Botton
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes.…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational…
— Madeleine Albright
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long.…
— Alexis Carrel
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every…
— Winston Churchill
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