Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Goreywas an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 February 1925
CountryUnited States of America
Edward Gorey quotes about
too-much gin drank
Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.
people findings
When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.
height would-be folly
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
crazy librarian mets
I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.
rain thinking snow
A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look.
journey window my-favorite
My favorite journey is looking out the window.
going-away important speak
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
children thinking trying
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.
book looks helpful
The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.
drawing might creeps
If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.
artist identity juicy
I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.
art boring theory
This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.
going-away important facts
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.
thinking world life-is
My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.