Famous Quotes / Chris Van Allsburg
11 Quotations by Chris Van Allsburg
- 1. A fantasy of mine is to be tempted by the devil with a miraculous machine, a machine that could be h ...
- 2. At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions ...
- 3. Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. ...
- 4. Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly mat ...
- 5. Lucky are the children who know there is a jolly fat man in a red suit who pilots a flying sleigh. W ...
- 6. Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. ...
- 7. The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a ten ...
- 8. The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stand ...
- 9. The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the ...
- 10. The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the tra ...
- 11. There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw w ...