Oliver Jeffers Quotes

• Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence

  Oliver Jeffers

  Curiosity

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• If you care too much about what others think then you ultimately become what you think they want you to be.

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  Thinking, Care, Want

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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 Jeffers

  Stories, Turns, Knows

  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.

  Oliver Jeffers

  Children, Book, Writing

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• There's a thin line between destruction and creation.

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  Lines, Creation, Destruction

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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 Jeffers

  Couple, Curiosity, Portraiture

  "Locating Loss with Oliver Jeffers". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.

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  Portraits, Way, Physics

  "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 Jeffers

  Months, Strange, Painting

  "Locating Loss with Oliver Jeffers". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2014.

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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 Jeffers

  Views, Glasses, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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