Quentin Blake Quotes
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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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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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
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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 gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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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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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.
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Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
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It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
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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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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.