John Howe Quotes

• Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

  John Howe

  Moving, Character, Support

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• Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

  John Howe

  Drawing, Meditation, Paper

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• Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

  John Howe

  Drawing, Admiration, Interest

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• Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

  John Howe

  Art, Inspiration, Europe

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• Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

  John Howe

  Years, Ideas, Numbers

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• What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

  John Howe

  Drawing, Interesting, Draws

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• All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.

  John Howe

  Book, Glimpse, Fans

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• My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

  John Howe

  Art, Real, School

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• More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.

  John Howe

  Mind, Looks, States

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.

  John Howe

  Art, School, Thinking

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• I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.

  John Howe

  Writing, Opportunity, Offering

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• I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

  John Howe

  Book, Illustration, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.

  John Howe

  Love You, Exercise, Suffering

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• I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

  John Howe

  Switzerland, Film, Animated

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• Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

  John Howe

  Dragons, Bridges, Fairy Tale

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