Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer, Tony Award-winning costume designer, and artist, noted for his own illustrated books as well as cover art and illustration for books by other writers. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings.
"Of course I believe in graphology, also palmistry, the I Ching, the tarot, astrology, and all those other delicious things you can find in places like thesaurusi (can that be the plural? No, it cant, it must be thesauri), which turn out to mean prognostication by means of snail tracks or something."
"I think style chooses you... if I could choose, I would write like Jane Austen and I would draw like Rembrandt."
"I used to maintain that if it couldnt be put into words it didnt exist; if anything I believe rather the opposite now."
"Ideally, if anything were any good, it would be indescribable."
"If youre doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because thered be no point. Im trying to think if theres sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children—oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And thats true, there really isnt. And theres probably no happy nonsense, either."
"Well, Im neither one thing nor the other particularly. I suppose Im gay. But I dont really identify with it much... Ive never said I was gay, and Ive never said I wasnt... What Im trying to say is that I am a person before I am anything else."
"One scarcely knows to whom to complain."
