Gerald Scarfe Quotes & Sayings
18 most famous Gerald Scarfe quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 88 year old British artist born on Jun 1, 1936.
“All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them.”
“And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.”
“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.”
“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.”
“So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.”
“England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.”
“I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.”
“I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.”
“So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.”
“You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on.”
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