Chris Riddell Quotes

Chris Riddell

Profession : Artist

Birth : April 13, 1962

Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.

Chris Riddell

School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.

Chris Riddell

The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!

Chris Riddell

I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.

Chris Riddell

Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.

Chris Riddell

I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.

Chris Riddell

My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared.

Chris Riddell