John Tenniel
10 quotes
Biography
"A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art."
"It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. … I have done nothing in that direction since."
"Please let me know to what extent you have used, or intend using, the pruning knife."
"The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny."
"How true it is that some have greatness thrust upon them! - and you may be quite sure that it was none of my seeking."
"Mr. Tenniel is the only artist, who has drawn for me, who resolutely refused to use a model, and declared he has no more needed one than I should need a multiplication-table to work on a mathematical problem!"
"Tenniel raised the political cartoon to a new level of dignity and importance."
"Tenniel, who had started as a child prodigy, nearly ended as one. When a boy, fencing with his father, he lost the sight of one eye. But the remaining one saw more than most."
"By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that."
"Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block."