Quotes About Creativity

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.

Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular kind of book. I try to give children what I would give anybody, you know. I become interested in something. I find something fascinating. It has to fascinate me, and then I want to give it to them.

The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.

I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.

I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

Let's make some funny pictures.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

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

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.

I get such lovely gifts from fans... amazing pictures, handmade jewellery. I'm very lucky!

I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.