John Howe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
-- John Howe

#Moving Forward #Character #Support
Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.
-- John Howe

#Drawing #Meditation #Paper
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.
-- John Howe

#Years #Ideas #Numbers
My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.
-- John Howe

#Art #Real #School
More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.
-- John Howe

#Mind #Looks #States
I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.
-- John Howe

#Art #School #Thinking
I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.
-- John Howe

#Writing #Opportunity #Offering
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
-- John Howe

#Book #Illustration #Long
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
-- John Howe

#Art #Inspiration #Europe
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
-- John Howe

#Dragons #Bridges #Fairy Tale
I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.
-- John Howe

#Switzerland #Film #Animated
All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.
-- John Howe

#Book #Glimpse #Fans
What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.
-- John Howe

#Drawing #Interesting #Draws
Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.
-- John Howe

#Drawing #Admiration #Interest
God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.
-- John Howe

#Love You #Exercise #Suffering
Tho none ought to conclude that their day or season of grace is quite expired, yet they ought to deeply apprehend the danger, lest it should expire before their necessary work be done and their peace made. For tho it can be of no use for them to know the former, and therefore they have no means appointed them by which to know it, 'tis of great use to apprehend the latter; and they have sufficient ground for the apprehension.
-- John Howe

#Mean #Grace #Use

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