Chris Riddell Quotes

A picture is a poem without words.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.

I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.

“One picture is worth a thousand words,” said an ancient Chinese; but it may take ten thousand words to validate it.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

Painting is but another word for feeling.

Play is a medium of word and film is a medium of picture.

All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.