Post by Admin on Nov 26, 2018 23:07:31 GMT
Some quotes I could find
"I think Edward Gorey's The Unstrung Harp is the best novel ever written about a novelist, and I ought to know."
-- Graham Greene (source 1, 2)
"[Gorey's Anchor cover art for Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time] is absolutely splendid -- I never imagined that an illustrator could render an author's vision so accurately."
"Edward Gorey's work is remarkable and mysterious. I find it fascinating."
-- Max Ernst (source)
( In turn, Gorey was very much influenced by Max Ernst, as you can see when comparing Gorey's work with Ernst's collages, like 1934's Une semaine
de bonté. Gorey himself had this to say: “Max Ernst. Collage, frottage, bricolage. Some of his paintings are quite wonderful. I probably would never have done
Figbash if he hadn’t done Loplop. I more or less grew up with [Ernst’s] Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale (1924) at The Modern Museum of Art” (source). )
"Startling, superb, consummately mature...A unique bygone world."
"I think Edward Gorey's The Unstrung Harp is the best novel ever written about a novelist, and I ought to know."
-- Graham Greene (source 1, 2)
"I recently saw a fantastic picture book, 'The Doubtful Guest', by Edward Gorey...In case you don't know it already, I recommend it highly."
-- Herman Hesse (Nobel Prize winner, writing to Diogenes Verlag in 1960 (source)"[Gorey's Anchor cover art for Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time] is absolutely splendid -- I never imagined that an illustrator could render an author's vision so accurately."
"[Edward Gorey] is sublime, absurd and mystical."
-- Oskar Kokoschka (source)
"Edward Gorey's work is remarkable and mysterious. I find it fascinating."
-- Max Ernst (source)
( In turn, Gorey was very much influenced by Max Ernst, as you can see when comparing Gorey's work with Ernst's collages, like 1934's Une semaine
de bonté. Gorey himself had this to say: “Max Ernst. Collage, frottage, bricolage. Some of his paintings are quite wonderful. I probably would never have done
Figbash if he hadn’t done Loplop. I more or less grew up with [Ernst’s] Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale (1924) at The Modern Museum of Art” (source). )
"Startling, superb, consummately mature...A unique bygone world."
-- John Updike on Edward Gorey (source)
"I like to return to Edward Gorey's works...he is really becoming a master."
-- Edmund Wilson (source)
"[Gorey has created] A whole little personal world, equally amusing and somber, nostalgic and claustrophobic, at the same time poetic and poisoned."
"[Gorey's illustrated All Strange Away] is a beautiful edition... congratulations."
-- Samuel Beckett (source)