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Robert Ingpen [1936-0] Australian

Rank: 107
Artist, Illustrator

Robert Roger Ingpen AM, FRSA is an Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and writer. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986.

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You don't put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you're an illustrator - it's not part of it; it's not possible. You are a servant to the story.		101
I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.		102
A good story is elegantly wrapped, and the child discovers things bit by bit.		103
1950s education didn't agree with me. I was totally lost.		104
My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.		105

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