Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian artist Robert Ingpen.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Robert Roger Ingpen AM, FRSA is an Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and writer. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986.
A good story is elegantly wrapped, and the child discovers things bit by bit.
1950s education didn't agree with me. I was totally lost.
My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.
You don't put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you're an illustrator - it's not part of it; it's not possible. You are a servant to the story.
I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.