Gerald Scarfe

“I have always tried to be a satirist, to present a viewpoint. I am not a reporter.”

“If you tread on a beetle, it will probably bite you. I'm treading on people, and they're bound to bite back.”

“My work is an attack. It's a way of expressing my anger at what I see around me.”

“I always feel that my work is a form of journalism, it's a commentary on the times in which I live.”

“I've always been drawn to the grotesque. I think it's more truthful.”

“I draw to try and make sense of the world.”

“I'm not a political animal. I'm an artist who comments on politics.”

“I see my work as a diary of my time.”

“I don't find it difficult to be nasty. It's a gift.”

“Caricature is a form of licensed madness. It's a way of saying the unsayable.”