"Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace."
— Wallace Tripp

January 1, 1970

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In "Voices of the Creators. Wallace Tripp" in Children's Books and Their Creators (1995) edited by Anita Silvey, p. 652