28 Quotes by Gerald Scarfe

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.

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.

You know I have done about a dozen books.

But on the broader issues, the injustices in the world. You know, that would be something pretty much anyone would agree on I guess.

I simply got a phone call one day saying that Roger and Nick had both seen this on BBC Television and thought that they would like to meet me.

So when I make my drawings, although I may not be consciously basing it on somebody or basing it on my experiences, I expect to a certain extent I am.

There were shelters underneath the ground everywhere. They were called Anderson Shelters, and we would go down into them if the siren went.

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

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