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Quotes by Gerald Scarfe

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I haven’t done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.
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How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don’t like it.
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So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don’t want to be in it.
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There were shelters underneath the ground everywhere. They were called Anderson Shelters, and we would go down into them if the siren went.
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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.
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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.
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But on the broader issues, the injustices in the world. You know, that would be something pretty much anyone would agree on I guess.
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You know I have done about a dozen books.
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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.
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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.
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