Quentin Blake Quotes

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

Nature engenders the science of painting.