Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.