Oliver Jeffers quotes
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“I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.”
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“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 JeffersSource : "Locating Loss with Oliver Jeffers". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2014.
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“Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence”
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“I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.”
-- Oliver JeffersSource : "Locating Loss with Oliver Jeffers". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2014.
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“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 JeffersSource : "Locating Loss with Oliver Jeffers". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2014.
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“Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.”
-- Oliver JeffersSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.”
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“There's a thin line between destruction and creation.”
-- Oliver JeffersSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 JeffersSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
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