"I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration ended up being the creative outlet that I focused on for my career. I feel like illustration gives me the flexibility to tackle more abstract or loose ideas, as well as just enjoy the process of putting time into developing a skill."

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Source : Interview with Loraine Sammy, www.apex-magazine.com. March 4, 2014.

Julie Dillon

#Writing Quotes #Illustration Quotes #Play Quotes

“Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.”
“Home gives you something no other place can... your history. Home is where your history begins.”
“By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.”

Source : Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Art Institute of Chicago, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (2006). “Charles Sheeler: across media”, University of California Press
“The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team”
“If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.”
“The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.”
“I take my coffee the same way I take my women: Strong, black, and proud.”

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