Mary GrandPre famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I will be sad. I've gotten very attached to Harry and all that goes on in his world, I guess I'll just be kind of tasting every bit of it because it will be the last one.
-- Mary GrandPre

#Be Kind #Lasts #Goes On
In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.
-- Mary GrandPre

#Character #Fog #Creating
When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J.K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing â€” she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision.
-- Mary GrandPre

#Book #Writing #Responsibility
Awards are great, but they're not who you are, and pop culture isn't who you are.
-- Mary GrandPre

#Awards #Culture #Pops
I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.
-- Mary GrandPre

#Kids #Artist #Thinking
I was quite nauseous every day at school - I had some real stomach problems. The thing that saved me was sitting in church and trying to get into these statues and windows and colors. Truly, it transported me. And I can see it now in my own work - my pictures have kind of that look.
-- Mary GrandPre

#Real #School #Color
I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.
-- Mary GrandPre

#Beautiful #Girl #Catholic
I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.
-- Mary GrandPre

#Years #Draws #Five Year Olds
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.
-- Mary GrandPre

#Children #Book #Artist

Be kind, aim for my heart.
It's better to be kind than to be right.
Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

Mary GrandPre famous quotes

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