"Charles Keeping on artnet"

Charles Keeping Literature See all quotes by Charles Keeping →

React to this quote

More by Charles Keeping

“Extract from Elidor by Alan Garner, including illustrations by Keeping”

“Frankenstein illustrations by Charles Keeping”

“Two lithographs by Charles Keeping”

“I couldn't do them if I didn't know horses lived behind them.”

“His formidable originality within the picture-book convention may not have been altogether apparent to Keeping himself, which is both a strength and a weakness: the strength that he could communicate with unrivalled emotional intensity — but possibly only with one child in twenty; the concomitant weakness is that there was not a lot he could do to broaden this minority appeal and ensure that his books remained in print over longer periods. ~ Douglas Martin in Charles Keeping: an illustrator's life he is a good auther”

Resonant Thoughts

"It is the manner of gods and prophets to begin: "Thou shalt have none other God or Prophet but me." If I were to start as a God or a prophet I think I should take the line: "Thou shalt not believe in …"

— Samuel Butler (novelist)

Literature1835–1902

#art

"If I try to be or do something noble that has nothing to do with who I am, I may look good to others and to myself for a while. But the fact that I an exceeding my limits will eventually have conseque…"

— Parker Palmer

Literature1939

#art

"My intention is to make in Drenthe so much progress in painting that when I come back I may be qualified for the 'Society of Draughtsmen' . This stands again in connection with the second plan of goin…"

— Vincent van Gogh

Art1853–1890

#art