In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.

I fall asleep thinking there is no better elixir than travel. Old things always bored me, boredom always scared me, while travel—travel is a carnival of wild affairs.

How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?

Smile my boy, it’s sunrise

As ever, Morpurgo's warmth and humanity suffuse a story of courage, love and hope.

I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?

I always have the best of everything.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.