Scarfe Quotes

#1. I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

Jane Asher

#2. 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.

Gerald Scarfe

#3. IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created. If you don't write at all you won't know how "great" that simple book can be.

Shiree McCarver

#4. People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

Ray Charles

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

Gerald Scarfe

#6. 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.

Gerald Scarfe

#7. The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

George Tyrrell

#8. 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

#9. I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.

Clifford Geertz

#10. 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 anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit.

Gerald Scarfe

#11. Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

Abraham Lincoln

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

Gerald Scarfe

#13. I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious consequences if you get in over your head.

Michael Franzese

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

Gerald Scarfe

#15. 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 Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.

Gerald Scarfe

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

Gerald Scarfe

#17. 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.

Gerald Scarfe

#18. For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

George Washington Cable

#19. He may be a malevolent sorcerer, but Tiny Cooper is his own goddamned man, and if he wants to be a gigantic skipper, then that's his right as a huge American.

John Green

#20. 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

#21. Just like all people - just want to get on with their lives, and have families, and have a bit of fun and have a decent life. They are not interested in war - no one is, unless you are a professional soldier. Or a politician! And then of course it's your living!

Gerald Scarfe

#22. There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

John Robinson

#23. 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.

Gerald Scarfe

#24. 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 to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script.

Gerald Scarfe

#25. It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

James Weldon Johnson

#26. 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.

Gerald Scarfe

#27. 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

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

Gerald Scarfe

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

Gerald Scarfe

#30. It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.

Napoleon Hill

#31. 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