John Tenniel quotes
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“By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.”
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“I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.”
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“Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.”
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“A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.”
-- John TennielSource : "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (p. 146), 1898.
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“It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. ... I have done nothing in that direction since.”
-- John TennielSource : "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (p. 146), 1898.
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“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”
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Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.
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“Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’”
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“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”
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“The world is full of paper, write to me”
Source : Agha Shahid Ali (1987). “The Half-Inch Himalayas”, p.48, Wesleyan University Press
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