Gerald Scarfe Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in World, Artist

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Self, Disney, Film

• 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

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in Self, Film

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Professional, Soldiers, Army

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Young

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

  Gerald Scarfe

  Topics in Business

  Tags in People

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Drawings, Vietnam

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cartoon, Film

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Musician, Popularity

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

  Gerald Scarfe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exciting, Countries

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Artist, Projects

• 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

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Animation

• 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

  Topics in Children

  Tags in German

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

  Gerald Scarfe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Feeling

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

  Gerald Scarfe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Artist

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

  Gerald Scarfe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Childhood

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

  Gerald Scarfe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Drawings, Animation

• 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

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Self, Visualization

Gerald Scarfe (18)

Birth:	1st June, 1936
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Cartoonist, Illustrator

About

Gerald Anthony Scarfe was born in St John's Wood, london, England. He is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker. He was the production designer on the Disney animated feature Hercules. His other work includes graphics for rock group Pink Floyd, particularly on their 1979 album The Wall, its 1982 film adaption, and tour, as well as the music video for "Welcome to the Machine".

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