Here is list of a few of the great quotes I heard during the weekend CBCA Conference.
Life is too short for bad books
Libby Gleeson
First comes the idea, then the fashion of the words, then the jigsaw of the sentences
Libby Gleeson
The arts is the most fundamental way we understand who we are and who we want to be
Libby Gleeson
Going to “place” is important
Mark Greenwood
My soul comes out when I am illustrating my own work
Trace Balla
I am a “storycatcher”
Trace Balla
The simplicity comes from distilled complexity
Tobhy Riddle about Margaret Hamilton’s “Counting Through the Day”
The world etches itself upon our souls
Margrete Lamond
What we see makes us feel. Artists manipulate what we see in order to manipulate what we feel
Margrete Lamond
We can’t preserve and protect what we can’t see and understand
Jeannie Baker
Kelp has always had a bad reputation
Jeannie Baker
Flyways are the routes birds travel when migrating
Jeannie Baker
Staring at a screen is a passive experience
Mark Norman
I write stories that interest me. If I’m not interested I won’t write it. It has to come from your heart.
Claire Saxby
Not everyone can be a hero
James Roy
There is no such thing as a kid who doesn’t like reading. They just haven’t found the right book
Jack Heath
Everyone deserves to see their reality reflected in a book
Melissa Keil
I am a bit of an aesthete
Leigh Hobbs
Infant doesn’t mean infantile
Leigh Hobbs
I am diversity
Dub Leffler
You want people to read a story that isn’t their own but they see themselves in it
Dub Leffler
When you grow up without heroes it’s hard to become one
Dub Leffler
It’s all been flukes and accidents
Graeme Base
Don’t give yourself a fall back…or you will fall back
Graeme Base