Quotes by Illustrators - Page 19

When you get in a snit, don't hit
David Ezra Stein
All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.
Lucy Knisley
Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as to perceive more clearly that unfathomable, mysterious core that is the source of their beauty.
Richard L. McGuire
As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old courage, standing on one's own feet, and forever seeking enlightenment; courage to develop your way, but learning from the other fellow; experimentation with your own ideas, observing for yourself, a rigid discipline of doing over that which you can improve.
Andrew Loomis
If you change your way of thinking and being, you will change your way of seeing.
Tanya Masse
No "knack" of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge.
Andrew Loomis
But remember, there's no greater gift than the present.
Dan Santat
It wasn't till they were on the bridge that Delly asked RB, "So, Ferris Boyd's your favorite?" She didn't mind, mostly.RB answered so fast, though, she knew he wasn't fibbing. "She's my favorite friend," he told her. "You're my favorite everything.
Katherine Hannigan
You can't NOT cross the street because you might get hit by a car.
Tanya Masse
My books are a word feast.
Lori R. Lopez
The only true disability is the inability to accept and respect differences.
Tanya Masse
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.
Natalie Babbitt
From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order...
Mervyn Peake
Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH:A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay'dBy your/their indiff'rence in the dank brown shadeBelow the garden...His mind's eye sees them quoted on the bottom third of a right-hand page in a (possibly) olive-bound book he read at least five years ago. When he does find them, it will be a great nuisance if no clue is given to their authorship.
Edward Gorey
On the street below, the weather is calm. But up here, high winds threaten to topple the workers. A sudden gust can knock them from their footing with its sheer force or send a fatal vibration through the beams on which they stand. And yet the men joke, laugh, stroll across the foot-wide beams as though they are on solid ground. To the people on the sidewalk, tiny as ants below, the skywalkers appear entirely unafraid. A hundred years ago, their grandfathers and great-grandfathers built the skyscrapers and bridges that surround them.
David Weitzman
The sooner the rebirth, the prettier the corpse.
David S.E. Zapanta
Stay positive, stay strong, stay together and just keep going!
Tanya Masse
I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There's just no way to really prepare for that.
Jim Benton
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
Mark Haddon
Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.
James A. Owen
I know I do everything. I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived as hard as I could, and it's been unbelievable, I tell you, unbelievable. But now I have the feeling everything is gliding away from me, and I don't remember, and I don't care, and yet now is right when I need it.
Tove Jansson
Neither super strength, nor telepathy, nor flight, nor telekinesis, nor any aberrant ability will ever be as great as the innate ability that a woman has when she is able to control her own mind.
Kenn Bivins
It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.
Sally Gardner
Self-hatred is the best vehicle for making people do as they’re told because they are hungry to get approval.
Melinda Gebbie
We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.
Russell Hoban
She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?
Cornelia Funke
Nothing is more important than creative play through imagination. Never stop playing, and never stop imagining!
Carmela Dutra
There were bad times before, and you are still here... Living, breathing, feeling the wind on your skin. Let everything go and feel it!
Adam Scythe
From an illustration in her "Animals of a Bygone Era": a Leptictidium, an extinct rabbit-like animal who left no descendants, says: "Too bad, because we were really cute.
Maja Säfström
Want less, need less, live more.
Tanya Masse
It's ok to think the way you think, just as long as you respect that it's not the only way.
Tanya Masse
It is enough to know, too much to see.
Sally Gardner
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.
Mark Haddon
Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
Maurice Sendak
You might think that a boy is just your friend, but then if you find out that maybe he likes you (in a boyfriend way), everything changes instantly. (47)
Charise Mericle Harper
He was going to miss everything. But he guessed that was how everybody always felt. Everyone was losing things, leaving things behind, clinging to old memories as they rushed into the future. Everyone was a passenger on a runaway train.
Philip Reeve
Do things that count, but don't count the things you do.
Tanya Masse
Really think about what you want your eulogy to say about you, then live THAT.
Tanya Masse
All writers are insane!
Cornelia Funke
One day Mrs. Goodkind said,'Pickles, you are not a bad cat.You are not a good cat.You are good and bad.And bad and good.You are a mixed-up cat.What you need is a good home.Then you will be good.'
Esther Averill
Your answers lie here," Rovender said, gesturing around the library.
Tony DiTerlizzi
Secrets... nothing eats away at love faster.
Cornelia Funke
If there's no chocolate in Heaven, I'm not going.
Jane Seabrook
Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind.
Lorin Morgan-Richards
He is the only man she has ever loved, and he has dumped her like ballast. She needs to find an explanation that does not make her a fool and him an animal, but every thought of him is a knife turning in the wound love made.
Mark Haddon
Nobody can guarantee that it's going to be okay, but - and I don't know if this will be comforting to anyone else - the possibility exists that there's a piece of corn on a floor somewhere that will make you just as confused about why you were laughing as you have ever been about why you are depressed.
Allie Brosh
Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert.
Walter Moers
Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.
Masamune Shirow
Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.
Rich DiSilvio
Many grim tales stem from your green lands, and still deeds both noble and evil shall yet unfold there.
Robin Jarvis
What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.
Lorin Morgan-Richards
An artist is someone who sees and feels realty very intensely. Creativity doesn't mean just making things up out of thin air. It means seeing and feeling the world so vividly that you can put together connections and patterns that help to explain reality. It means you see the beauty in the world rather than trying to hide from it.
Danny Gregory
The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.
Lesley Howarth
When a mosquito sees a light in the darkness, it is drawn to it by an urge too powerful to resist. Even if the light is a bug zapper, caked with the carcasses of all the mosquito's electrocuted relatives, the poor insect will still use the last flap of its wings to fly to its death. It simply can't help it.
Keith Graves
Love and laughter are two of the most important universal cancer treatments on the planet. Overdose on them.
Tanya Masse
And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.
Brom
If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls
Mervyn Peake
If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.
Cooper Edens
Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time...But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.
Emily Carroll