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

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 ar…

- 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 cl…

- 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

There's a thin line between destruction and creation.

- Oliver Jeffers

If you care too much about what others think then you ultimately become what you think they want you to be.

- 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 make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.

- Oliver Jeffers