Mordicai Gerstein

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the…

— Mordicai Gerstein

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?

— Mordicai Gerstein

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

— Mordicai Gerstein

Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think…

— Mordicai Gerstein

Every book is a unique experience.

— Mordicai Gerstein

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

— Mordicai Gerstein

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they…

— Mordicai Gerstein

Well, 9/11 made me think about the towers, and the fact that I lived in New York for a long time, while…

— Mordicai Gerstein

I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.

— Mordicai Gerstein

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

— Mordicai Gerstein

People have their own ideas how about they should appear.

— Mordicai Gerstein

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships…

— Mordicai Gerstein

I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing…

— Mordicai Gerstein

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

— Mordicai Gerstein

If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to…

— Mordicai Gerstein

I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.

— Mordicai Gerstein

I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions…

— Mordicai Gerstein

Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular…

— Mordicai Gerstein