"For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures, you should be able to tell what the story is about without having to read a word of text. That's what I think I brought from doing artwork for film to doing artwork for books."

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Source : "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

Kadir Nelson

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Silent Films Quotes

“I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.”
“People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.”
“I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.”
“The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.”
“Power should answer by action, not by speech.”
“Whether you're in bed or in court, everybody gets off.”
“It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.”
“But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57

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