Quentin Blake famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
-- Quentin Blake

#Thinking #Drawing #People
I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.
-- Quentin Blake

#Inspiration #Waiting #Facts
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.
-- Quentin Blake

#Thinking #Two #Giving
A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
-- Quentin Blake

#School #Library #France

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Quentin Blake famous quotes

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