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“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
(illustration by Barbara Cooney)
The Little Mermaid (1938) illustration by Ruth Koser Michaels
I do not think my life really began until I first entered a library.
(art by Jessie Willcox Smith)
Trina Schart Hyman's illustrations for Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Czechoslovakia (1966)
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul."
- Wassily Kandinsky, born #OTD in 1866
Two Children on Their Way to the Fairytale Forest, 1901–02 by Edvard Munch
Jan Marcin Szancer's illustration for the Polish fairy tale "Zapiciek"