Picture Book Quotes
Collection of top 43 famous quotes about Picture Book
Picture Book Quotes & Sayings
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
— David Attenborough
The world is a hungry place, and Anna will feed it beauty.
— Laurel Snyder
The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.
— Dan Yaccarino
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
— Chris Van Allsburg
Oh, sweet little huggles," Mama said. "Remember what Pampy used to say when he wanted to be brave?
— Lenora Riegel
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
— Ben Jonson
A good picture book can almost be whistled ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
— Margaret Wise Brown
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.
— Chris Van Allsburg
I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.
— Mitali Perkins
I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.
— Richard C. Armitage
Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
— Patrick Dempsey
For, to a child, the oddest of things, and the most richly coloured picture-book, is that his mother was once a child also.
— J.M. Barrie
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
— Arthur Helps
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.
— Emile Hirsch
I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together.
— Sima Mittal
Every day is a good day if we are reading a picture book.
— Vivian Kirkfield
I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Toilet paper unrolled and slitheredthen wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll me up
into an Egyptian mummy. — Melinda K. Trotter
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
— Eve Bunting
If I could tell you about RedI would sing to you of fire Sweet like cherries
Burning like cinnamon Smelling like a rose in the sun — Dixie Dawn Miller Goode
Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.
— Anthony Browne
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
— Kate DiCamillo
Skippy Jon Jones picture book
— Lauren Blakely
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.
— Tomie DePaola
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
— William Goldman
As a form, the picture book has a similar elegance to the short story.
— Gabrielle Zevin
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
