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Wallace Tripp Quotes

1940–2018 United States

Wallace Whitney Tripp (June 26, 1940 – September 9, 2018) was an American illustrator, anthologist and author. He was known for creating anthropomorphic animal characters of emotional complexity and for his great visual and verbal humor.

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Genius is rare as turtle fangs, but talent is common enough.

The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wallace Tripp (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.