Tomi Ungerer quotes
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“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 UngererSource : Interview with Burgin Streetman, www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com. July 1, 2013.
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“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.”
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“I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art.”
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“Far Out is never far enough because one challenge, if it is worthy at all, has to be followed by a greater challenge.”
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“I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art.”
-- Tomi Ungerer
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153
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Source : "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.
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