Famous Quotes,
Proverbs, & Sayings

Art Spiegelman Quote

Popular Topics:

People | Life | Time | Man | Love | Work | Music | Mind | Women | Money | War | Truth | Power | Art | Government | Nature | Business | History | Family | Age | Society | Success

Popular Authors:

Anthony Robbins | Tennessee Williams | Steve Jobs | Ramakrishna | Henry Fielding | Albert Schweitzer | Carl Sandburg | Stephen Hawking | Karl Kraus | Walt Disney | Arthur C. Clarke

Popular Occupations:

Actors | Politicians | Philosophers | Musicians | Comedians | Scientists | Artists | Lawyers

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.”

- Art Spiegelman

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.”

- Art Spiegelman

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.”

- Art Spiegelman

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.”

- Art Spiegelman

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.”

- Art Spiegelman

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.”

- Art Spiegelman

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”

- Art Spiegelman

Source/Notes: As quoted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings (1995) edited by Lawrence Sutin, p. x

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.”

- Art Spiegelman

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.”

- Art Spiegelman

Source/Notes: As quoted in Art Spiegelman on 'Breakdowns' Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey by Rebecca Milzoff in New York magazine (8 October 2008)]

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit.”

- Art Spiegelman

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“I was asking the school shrink, 'Has anyone ever told you the top of your head looks like a penis?' I thought that was a really funny thing to tell a bald shrink.”

- Art Spiegelman

Source/Notes: As quoted in Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory' in Financial Times (29 November 2008)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.”

- Art Spiegelman

Source/Notes: As quoted in Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory' in Financial Times (29 November 2008)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.”

- Art Spiegelman

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Art Spiegelman

“The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.”

- Art Spiegelman

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr