Tenniel Quotes

#1. As a child, I copied Tenniel's illustrations from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' obsessively, particularly his drawing of the white rabbit in waistcoat and frockcoat, umbrella tucked under one arm and a fob watch in paw, a look of suppressed panic in his eye.

Chris Riddell

#2. People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else.

Tony Robbins

#3. A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#4. A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

John Tenniel

#5. Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. When I need God most, He comes
to me the fastest and closest. When
I need the creation most, they run
from me the fastest and farthest.

Yasmin Mogahed

#7. By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

John Tenniel

#8. I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

John Tenniel

#9. Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.

Wayne Dyer

#10. I love you. Nothing else can explain how crazy you make me. And I want you to stay with me, tonight, tomorrow, and ... for as long as it takes to make this right, because I know everything seems completely fucked up right now. But it won't always be that way. We'll get it right, won't we?

Cassia Leo

#11. There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

Michel Gondry

#12. 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.

John Tenniel

#13. We're still on the run. That's for sure.

Koushun Takami

#14. I'll see you soon, I think as I fall, hoping she can hear me. It's as good a last thought as any, and I hold it close like a light in the darkness.

Rebecca Harris

#15. 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 Tenniel