Graeme Base famous quotes

I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.
-- Graeme Base

#Art #Fun #Book

Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.
-- Graeme Base

#Lying #Artist #Journey

I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.
-- Graeme Base

#Ideas #Looks #Want

I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.
-- Graeme Base

#Stars #Eight #Australia

People kept asking, Whats your market? Ive got no idea at all other than me, an eleven year old kid in a 56-year-old body. But there are a lot of us out there.
-- Graeme Base

#Kids #Years #Ideas

Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.
-- Graeme Base

#Optimistic #Thinking #Stories

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!

Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.

Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,

It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.

My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.