The Craft of the Lead Pencil Quotes

“Imagination runs most surely over land that it knows.”
― Mervyn Peake, The Craft of the Lead Pencil

“Anything, seen without prejudice, is enormous.”
― Mervyn Peake, The Craft of the Lead Pencil

“To make a drawing is to record an idea: an idea of a particular breed that can only be expressed through making marks on a piece of paper.”
― Mervyn Peake, The Craft of the Lead Pencil

“However writhes the snake the scales must follow.”
― Mervyn Peake, The Craft of the Lead Pencil