Chris Riddell Quotes

I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.

Chris Riddell

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• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Know
  • Drawing

• Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Style
  • Color
  • Identity

• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • War
  • Heroes
  • Soldiers

• Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Work
  • Question
  • End

• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  

  Gary Larson
  • People
  • Work
  • Ideas

• The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Artist
  • Painting

• England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • You
  • Drawing
  • Determined

• I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • People
  • Children
  • Myself

• I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Women
  • Art

• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Loved

• I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • School
  • Art

• What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Drawing

• It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Character
  • True
  • Day

• A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Morning
  • Sound

• Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Life
  • May
  • Fun

• Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Forever

• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Children
  • Car
  • Drawing

• In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring.

  

  James Stephens
  • Die
  • Fall
  • Evil

• I think a leader has many roles to play. So, you know, one role is that of incubating talent; the other is that of being a strategist. It's a very interesting job I've got.

  

  Kumar Mangalam Birla
  • Job
  • Interesting

• Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Done

• We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Home

• I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.

  

  Chris Riddell
  • Drawing