I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
More Quotes by Quentin Blake
You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.
I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.