Quotes
- “The desire to make these books came in a moment when I didn’t have enough money to buy much material and paint in watercolours and oil. I had nothing but recycled paper... I tried to create something with almost nothing and the idea of torn paper came from it”.
Interview with Claude Hubert-Ganiyare, from La Joie par les livres, April 1991.
- “People often use words as weapons and munitions. (...) The style is a discipline which makes these arms fall to let the world express a precise thought through the simplest and most beautiful arrangement. In fact, this definition could also be applied to images”.
Interview with Janine Kotwica in La Revue des Livres pour Enfants, April 2006
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Famous quotes containing the word quotes:
“I quote another man’s saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It’s exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. “I ain’t what I ought to be. I ain’t what I’m going to be, but I’m not what I was.””
—Stella Chess (20th century)
“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)