Quotes by Illustrators - Page 12

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?
David Mellonie
Your opinion should be based on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears & feel with your own heart.
Tanya Masse
There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.
Russell Hoban
It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different, for the spirit of convention was being rigorously adhered to, and in between his ribs Mr. Flay experienced twinges of pleasure.
Mervyn Peake
In your life, right here and now, things like mermaids, fairies, witches and monsters are nothing but fairytales told to your grandchildren and stories you heard from your own grandparents as children. They exist only in your imagination. Did you ever think that there is a chance all this was once real, that it all existed? Perhaps yes, but you would then consider such thoughts irrational, that even if you were to believe it and try telling someone they would think you for mad. In my world those creatures are real – I’m real, and I am here to tell you of a story that happened in eons past in the majestic island of Aster." - Queen of Merfolk Asteria - Ninemia
Marilena Mexi
I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is exactly like somebody trying to gently color on you with a thirty-story building. Without dwelling on the tragedy, I'd just like to say that I'm deeply sorry to Mr. Purple and the surviving Purple family.
Jim Benton
What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading.
Carmela Dutra
Prayer turns problems into promises and possibilities.
Lori Nawyn
I Brought My Grandma's Teeth to SchoolI brought my grandma’s teeth to school to share for show-and-tell.Billy showed his sneakers. It was more like show-and-smell.Kevin brought a violin and showed he couldn’t play.Katie brought a snake to school—too bad it got away.Our class likes show-and-tell a lot, so we were sad to hearour teacher say that show-and-tell is canceled till next year.
Robert Pottle
Only the young die good.
Oliver Herford
WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY:In your case, ED is not a man's name.
Robin Glasser
Labourism was to be the bete noire of the Party, hated as much as the capitalist system itself. Its growth was to lead to the hardening of Party attitudes almost to the point where even the wish to improve everyday conditions was considered iniquitous. The resentment was heated by the fact that many of the rising Labour leaders had been fellow members of the Social Democratic Federation and once professed the revolution.No words were strong enough for the Party's contempt. In the the Socialist Standard they were 'fakirs', a strong allusion to self-seeking piety, and on the platforms 'Labour bleeders',...
Robert Barltrop
I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick—the real choice—is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up.“It is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhere…“…but even Peter Pan had to grow up one day.
James A. Owen
The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.
Stephen McCranie
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that... is the sublime. Like the mushroom cloud of the atom bomb, or the vastness of space as projected to us by satellite... the greatness of the experience goes beyond your ethical and aesthetic judgment, cutting you free from the binding ego of yourself. With the diminishment of your ego, the less there is of you, the more you see the sublime.
Jen Wang
I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.
Natalie Babbitt
I guess what scares me the most now is the thought that I won't be able to protect you
Julia Hoban
Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.
Joseph Delaney
Tread not into the fearsome nightBut pull the covers high,Step not into the wild dark woodFor the Hobbers are dancing nigh
Robin Jarvis
You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
Kazu Kibuishi
You should base everything on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears and feel with your own heart. Period. Always believe what you KNOW about a person, not what you HEAR.
Tanya Masse
Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.
Elizabeth Enright
My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.
Maira Kalman
The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born,Nor how to burnWith love.How pitiful is our enforced returnTo those small things we are the masters of.
Mervyn Peake
The emotional, loving, moody child had small chance of developing into a happy woman. Had she as a girl been naturally joyus yet all that had befallen her must surely have driven away the bright birds, one by one, from her breast. As it was, made of more sombre clay, capable of deep happiness, but more easily drawn to the dark than the light, Fuchsia was even more open to the cruel winds of circumstance which appeared to have singled her out for particular punishment.
Mervyn Peake
Invite TranquilityThe sea,--Something to look atWhen we are angry.
Reiko Chiba
Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.
Marjorie Watts
What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like a bed of leaves. But this was dark, like the shade under a poisonous shrub, and it was hungry. So hungry. It must have some other name, just as there couldn't be the same word for life and death, or for moon and sun
Cornelia Funke
Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?''You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.''Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.
Louise Fitzhugh
...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia
E.L. Konigsburg
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
Maurice Sendak
Creativity is a state of mind, a way of being, and it comes from a sacred place within.
Bonnie Kelso
Why break the heart that never beat from love?
Mervyn Peake
On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.
Walter Moers
it’s hard to tell whether ornot hell’s flames are gettingcloser
Cory Basil
And intuition is what people is what people use in life to make decisions.But logic can help you work out the right answer.
Mark Haddon
Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.
Janny Wurts
Sometimes you really want to say "Duh," but you can't. It's a part of growing up, I guess.
Adam Rex
I don't think we are cut out to be evil sorcerers, brothers," said Fentongoose. "If we were truly evil, we would not feel such sorrow at the deaths of our friends. We would just go, 'Ha! Ha! Ha!' or something.
Philip Reeve
Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.
Carmela Dutra
Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous.
Hilda van Stockum
Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.
Caryll Houselander
My bed is the magical place I love to overthink like a PSYCHO.
Tanya Masse
Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.
Janny Wurts
I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.
Russell Hoban
But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437
Joseph Delaney
Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.
Janosch
Ben had never seen his mother cry before, and it startled him, so he didn't ask again. Right afterward she'd put on her favorite record and played a mysterious song called "Space Oddity," about an astronaut named Major Tom who gets lost in space. She used to listen to the song over and over again. With her eyes closed, she'd place the palm of her hand against the fabric of the speaker, so she could feel it vibrate against her skin.
Brian Selznick
It’s a strange moment when you realize that you don’t want to be alive anymore.
Allie Brosh
Doodling is the brooding of the hand.
Saul Steinberg
I want all the books on the she
E.L. Konigsburg
Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers
Chris Van Allsburg
You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.
Janny Wurts
Having words opened up a world of possibilities for Martha.
Susan Meddaugh
I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.
Kim Dong Hwa
Each month is gay,Each season nice,When eatingChicken soupWith rice
Maurice Sendak
In a way I haven't quite stopped mourning the end of my childhood.
Emma Koenig
The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better...
Joseph Delaney
Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
Mervyn Peake