There has to be the right pacing of images to tell the story. I’m always stunned at how little you can put in. Chris Raschka Read Quote
For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them. Chris Raschka Read Quote
If it’s just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn’t much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself. Chris Raschka Read Quote
I want each and every entire brushstroke to be seen. I want the marks made by the tip of the brush to carry as much meaning as the marks made by the dragging tail end, the part that splits open as the paint pulls away, thins and dries. Chris Raschka Read Quote
If you labor heavily upon a work of art, then part of what you are saying is, ‘This is a heavy work of art.’ If you happen to be trying to say something about lightness, then the art should be light as well. Chris Raschka Read Quote
I wasn’t always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well. Chris Raschka Read Quote
Can you really learn to knit from a diagram? Try it. Do you want to learn to ski or surf by yourself? You could drown or run into a tree. Chris Raschka Read Quote
For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another. Chris Raschka Read Quote
The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I’m doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful. Chris Raschka Read Quote
