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Quentin Blake

16-Dec-1932

United Kingdom

Quinin Blake was born in the city of London in 1932 and has been growing ever since he can remember. He is known for his collaborations with writers such as Robert Hoban, Joan Aiken, Michael Rosen, John Yeoman and, most importantly, Roald Dahl. He has also produced classic books, including A Christmas Carol and Candide and created some of the most popular characters, including Mister Magnolia and Mrs. Armitage. Ince's 1990s Quentin Blake had additional work such as exhibition exhibitions, exhibitions, among other places, the National Gallery, the British Library and the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris. Her books have won numerous awards and numerous awards, including the Whitbread Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Emil / Kurt Maschler Award and the Bologna Ragazzi Prize of the world. Blake is more than proud. He is a timid, well-mannered, irresponsible, sometimes violent, socially awful person, rarely where he should be, puffed up in details when he feels like it. He can tell good stories without a single word, but his collaboration with Roald Dahl is made in heaven. Or somewhere else. Dahl's diabolical trick came into being only when he wrote to children. In conjunction with Blake, there was a kind of alchemy. I never met a kid who didn't like Quentin Blake.

QUOTES BY Quentin Blake

“I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.”

Inspirational

“I suppose that really I had a training or education not so very different from a lot of other artists and illustrators — it’s just that I didn’t have it in the normal order. When I was at school I liked drawing, and I liked anything to do with humor, and I liked writing too. When I was about fourteen, I was lucky enough to be introduced to a man who both painted pictures and drew cartoons for newspapers and magazines, including Punch, the most famous English humorous magazine at the time. He was called Alfred Jackson and every few months I would take him a collection of my drawings to look at. Now I look back and realize these were in fact lessons or tutorials, and what was especially good about them was that he talked not only about the cartoonists’ drawings in Punch at the time, but also about Michelangelo and Modigliani as well.”

Artist

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

Life

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

Inspirational

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.

Inspirational

I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

Inspirational

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.