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Quentin Blake

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.

— Quentin Blake nature

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

— Quentin Blake think

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 reality

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

— Quentin Blake self

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

— Quentin Blake sin

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

— Quentin Blake hope

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

— Quentin Blake character

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

— Quentin Blake rain

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

— Quentin Blake life

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 work

I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.

— Quentin Blake people

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.

— Quentin Blake work

I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

— Quentin Blake day

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

— Quentin Blake good

I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

— Quentin Blake love

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 think

Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

— Quentin Blake time

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

— Quentin Blake time

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

— Quentin Blake success

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 humour

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

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

— Quentin Blake

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

— Quentin Blake art

Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

— Quentin Blake lie

I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

— Quentin Blake age

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what youve seen and what you imagine.

— Quentin Blake nature

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