Michael Foreman Quotes

British - Artist | March 21, 1938 -

Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.

Michael Foreman

DrawingYouLookUnderstandThings

On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.

Michael Foreman

AgeDeathDieEnoughLongEarly

From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!

Michael Foreman

LifeAgeFireImaginationLovedNow

Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.

Michael Foreman

SituationEmotionalThingsEssence

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

Michael Foreman

FriendshipBookStoryBattleYoung

I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

Michael Foreman

ChildrenChildHouseOnlyBooksOur

When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.

Michael Foreman

LifeChildrenWritingWorldClassic

When coming in to land at Santiago, Chile, I saw the area between the city and the Andes mountains was smoking with rubbish dumps. While exploring the dumps, I made friends with people living and working there and saw how they survived through recycling the rubbish.

Michael Foreman

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Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.

Michael Foreman

LifeGoodSchoolMy LifeDrawing

For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the move, became second nature.

Michael Foreman

NatureMeWritingWorldDrawing

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

Michael Foreman

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I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.

Michael Foreman

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