Oliver Jeffers quotes

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.
-- Oliver Jeffers

#Children #Book #Writing

I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don't fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that's how this project was born.
-- Oliver Jeffers

#Couple #Curiosity #Portraiture

Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence
-- Oliver Jeffers

#Curiosity

I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.
-- Oliver Jeffers

#Way #Portraits #Physics

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.
-- Oliver Jeffers

#Months #Strange #Painting

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.
-- Oliver Jeffers

#Stories #Turns #Knows

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.
-- Oliver Jeffers

#Children #Book #Writing

There's a thin line between destruction and creation.
-- Oliver Jeffers

#Lines #Creation #Destruction

I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view.
-- Oliver Jeffers

#Views #Glasses #Way

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,