Chris Riddell > Quotes

“I love the way words and pictures work together on a page. I have also noticed how when wise words have visuals added to them, they seem to travel further online, like paper aeroplanes catching an updraught.”
― Chris Riddell, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

“Lord Goth spent his time riding his hobby horse around the grounds and taking potshots at the garden ornaments with a blunderbuss. Before long he had acquired a reputation for being mad, bad and dangerous to gnomes.”
― Chris Riddell, Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse

“She gave me peace To want is to lack. That is what it means.”
― Chris Riddell

“Ada skipped lightly over the seven little chimney post in her elegant black tightrope-walking slippers.”
― Chris Riddell, Goth Girl and the Fete Worse than Death

“Nothing is impossible when it comes to love.”
― Chris Riddell, Goth Girl and the Fete Worse than Death