- Carnage
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never want to make a child worried or afraid, and I don't think I do. My pictures are born from the belief that children are far more capable and aware of social complexities than we give them credit for.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.
- Background
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.
- Golden
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020