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+ I didn't
mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
+
At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said,
we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little
seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature
out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But
we must integrate it into the way people live every day.
+ For me, spirit
is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul
refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where
there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most
important thing, nor our life.
+ My work is often therapeutic because I
often give expression to this inner voice.
+ There was all this loneliness
in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely,
disconnected, depressed." And I’d say, "Yeah well, that’s
not me. I’m just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.’
But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead
of the head's
understanding.
+ This life is actually very exhausting. It doesn't give
humans much time to contemplate anything. We are not resting ourselves and there
is the feeling we have got to keep working and pushing really hard. So I draw
the person running and running and running-for no apparent reason. And suddenly
I find that I have touched on something that is perhaps universal.
+ I
thought everybody would understand what a duck is about, and it's just there is
the duck. And suddenly the whole nation seems perplexed about what does a duck
mean? I think a nation is in trouble that cannot accept a duck.
+ I have
gotten used to dirty tricks, dirty tactics, from the pro-war lobbyists.
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