I had to learn to see the world. I followed the teachers wherever they were and I didn’t care about the institution, it was more about the person.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It’s not about stabbing each other in the back; it’s about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don’t. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my...

When I left school I went on trip around the world-I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It’s probably one of my...

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, ‘What do you want, a shopping list?’ They kept asking, ‘What’s in this picture?’

Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I’m very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn’t the audience demand for crime stuff that...

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

I haven’t done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It’s deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it’s the only thing that makes any sense.

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

But if you have a point of view and you’re an artist or a writer, it’s kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that’s entertaining as well....

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

Our society’s need for escapism has always interested me.

I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it’s all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you’re able to grasp what things mean.

You know I have done about a dozen books.

I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I’ve got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page,...

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But...

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don’t know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought...

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to...

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn’t be able to say anything.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

You know it’s my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on.

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don’t. Some artists sit...

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that...

I’m very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V’s conducting the 1812 overture.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

I simply got a phone call one day saying that Roger and Nick had both seen this on BBC Television and thought that they would like to meet me.

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it’s a bad thing.

And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn’t do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and...

I’m vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you’d get any feedback.

The thing is you don’t always get the opportunity to do what you really want to do. I must say it’s difficult to get your own projects underway.

I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

The latest page I’ve been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who’s indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.