Gerald Scarfe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.
-- Gerald Scarfe

#Goodbye #Children #Wall
Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
-- Gerald Scarfe

#Children #Childhood #Fatherhood
Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.
-- Gerald Scarfe

#Drawing #Movement #Kind
I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.
-- Gerald Scarfe

#War #Drawing #Vietnam
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
-- Gerald Scarfe

#Artist #Past #Thinking
How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.
-- Gerald Scarfe

#War #Wells #Feels
I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.
-- Gerald Scarfe

#Book #Years #Done
So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
-- Gerald Scarfe

#War #People #Majority
So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
-- Gerald Scarfe

#Running #War #Army

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.
If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?
The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.

Gerald Scarfe famous quotes

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