Tomi Ungerer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And life, you know, on an everyday basis, is absurd, or may turn out to be absurd. There's no reality without absurdity.
-- Tomi Ungerer

#Reality #Thinking #Giving
Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.
-- Tomi Ungerer

#Expression #Drawing #Black
Iâ€™ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether itâ€™s in daily life or in art.
-- Tomi Ungerer

#Art #Daily Life #Sponges
Far Out is never far enough because one challenge, if it is worthy at all, has to be followed by a greater challenge.
-- Tomi Ungerer

#Challenges #Enough #Worthy
I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art.
-- Tomi Ungerer

#Art #Daily Life #Sponges

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.
Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
Think it over, think it under.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.

Tomi Ungerer famous quotes

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