Oliver Jeffers Quotes

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“In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars ... and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didnt take much notice of anything ... other than how heavy ... and awkward the bottle had become.”
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Then the boy realised,the penguin wasn't lost,he was just lonely.

— Oliver Jeffers

In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars ... and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything ... other than how heavy ... and awkward the bottle had become.

— Oliver Jeffers

I keep writing children's books, I keep making children's books, because I still have them inside of me.

— Oliver Jeffers

“Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence”

— Oliver Jeffers

There's a thin line between destruction and creation.

— Oliver Jeffers

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

— Oliver Jeffers

“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

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

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

— Oliver Jeffers

“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

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