"Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking……" — Quentin Blake
"Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity."
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13 Quotes by Quentin Blake
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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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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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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and…
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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 Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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