Kate Greenaway Quotes

United Kingdom, Painter
March 17, 1846 – November, 6, 1901.

Catherine Greenaway (17 March 1846 – 6 November 1901) was a Victorian children's book illustrator and writer whose work influenced the children's style of the day. The only daughter of a successful draftsman and wood engraver, she studied graphic design and art between 1858 and 1869.

Also known as Writer, Illustrator, Children'S Writer

I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

Kate Greenaway
- Time
- Long
- Done
Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

Kate Greenaway

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

Kate Greenaway
- Long
- Writing
- Desire
Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.

Kate Greenaway
- Life
- Beautiful
- Die
How different everything is when you are with the right people!

Kate Greenaway
A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

Kate Greenaway
- Good
- She
- Wife
A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

Kate Greenaway
- Up
- Time
- Different