Drawing is the most direct and personal... - Tomi Ungerer - Quotes.Pub

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 Quotes

I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art.

Far Out is never far enough because one challenge, if it is worthy at all, has to be followed by a greater challenge.

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.

If I write a book I do it mostly for myself for the child in me and for the adult in me. The criterion for my children’s books is: If I were a child would I like it That’s very egotistical but it’s the same thing with my books for adults. I wouldn’t do a book if I didn’t want to partake and share. With a book I can do both: I give and I share.

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