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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

If you have to do the work, it well.

Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.

Success without happiness is failure.