John Tenniel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.
-- John Tenniel

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I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.
-- John Tenniel

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Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.
-- John Tenniel

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A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.
-- John Tenniel

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It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. ... I have done nothing in that direction since.
-- John Tenniel

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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....
The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the â€˜core aspect of the designâ€™
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
The world is full of paper, write to me
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

John Tenniel famous quotes

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