And Gág was as distinguished a writer as an illustrator. "If the history of the art of the picture book is ever written," Ward maintained, "the name of this artist will undoubtedly be graven there is large letters, for she, in writing her story as well as drawing it, has discovered the richest potentialities of each factor, and to the process of integration has brought a wealth of originality. No other books have quite that feeling of integration."
"I always feel," Gág once admitted, "as though I am following a path, a well-defined path, which has been particularly cut out for me. There are many obstacles in the way, and it is up to me to remove them, but the path itself is always quite clearly there." Born on 11 March 1893, into a family of artists, Gág, in a sense, had to become an artist.
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