Quentin Blake Professions : Cartoonist Born : December 16, 1932 Browse All Authors Top 28 quotes by Quentin Blake Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity. Quentin Blake drawing people thinking I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival. Quentin Blake inspiration waiting facts I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. Quentin Blake giving two thinking A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France. Quentin Blake library france school Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly. Quentin Blake some mysterious inspiration blessing Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet. Quentin Blake alien hospital going like You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot. Quentin Blake look you life window I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for. Quentin Blake the-only-thing got only teacher Being positive may be a character defect of mine. Quentin Blake mine being positive character Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry. Quentin Blake i-think because think difficult I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture. Quentin Blake education culture children people With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own. Quentin Blake pictures more own hope I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour. Quentin Blake never thought know children I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know? Quentin Blake good think know you If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself. Quentin Blake yourself you express-yourself want Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs. Quentin Blake disappointment reality television I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it. Quentin Blake find me want work I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it. Quentin Blake very good email struggle I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category. Quentin Blake like special children people I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something. Quentin Blake holidays feeling holiday drawing Similar Authors Al Capp cartoonist Bill Amend cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley cartoonist Art Spiegelman cartoonist Alison Bechdel cartoonist Alex Toth cartoonist All Authors
