Gerald Scarfe Quotes

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• 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…
• Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
• Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.
• 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…
• 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…
• How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.
• I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.
• So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
• 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…
• And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil…
• 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…
• England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.
• I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had…
• 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…
• 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…
• And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do…
• 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…
• 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…

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