I don't get really inspired the way some people do, buzzing with ideas - it feels like hard work to me... but once I get hooked into the universe of a particular work it becomes almost like an aesthetic addiction.
Shaun TanSo you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing.
Shaun TanAs an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.
Shaun TanYou discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and youโre like an immigrant to your own world. You donโt have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.
Shaun Tan