Gerald Scarfe

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was…

— Gerald Scarfe

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are…

— Gerald Scarfe

I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules…

— Gerald Scarfe

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make…

— Gerald Scarfe

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his…

— Gerald Scarfe

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

— Gerald Scarfe

So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads…

— Gerald Scarfe

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the…

— Gerald Scarfe

“Just like all people - just want to get on with their lives, and have families, and have a bit of fun…

— Gerald Scarfe

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

— Gerald Scarfe

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on…

— Gerald Scarfe

And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was…

— Gerald Scarfe

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

— Gerald Scarfe

“I hated [the commercial art studio] because advertising is telling lies, basically, making crap goods look terrific, and I felt I was…

— Gerald Scarfe

And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And…

— Gerald Scarfe

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right…

— Gerald Scarfe

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

— Gerald Scarfe

England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.

— Gerald Scarfe

I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.

— Gerald Scarfe

You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what…

— Gerald Scarfe