Quotes by Art Spiegelman - Page 1

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.
Art Spiegelman / Cartoonist
Drug
Literacy
Reading
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Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.
Art Spiegelman / Cartoonist
Tvs
Yelling
Tv
Instead
Tv Set
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Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult
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Adults
Feels
Sometimes
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To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.
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Dies
Easy
Struggle
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Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.
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Cooking
Rocks
Stars
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A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.
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Diaries
Letters
Suicide
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No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.
Art Spiegelman / Cartoonist
Accomplish
Auschwitz
Matter
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In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true!
Art Spiegelman / Cartoonist
Cartoonist
Stills
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When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.
Art Spiegelman / Cartoonist
Art
Technology
Dies
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Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
Art Spiegelman / Cartoonist
Convince
Definitions
Percent
Polemics
Wells
Sure
Anybody
Meant
Definition
Polemic
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I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
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Artist
Degenerates
Parent
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Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.
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Fascists
Pernicious
Propaganda
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Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.
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Hands
Silence
Unnecessary
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I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics.
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Audience
Escapism
My Own
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I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.
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Boulders
Natural
Tree
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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 / Cartoonist
Reviewers
Wanted
Lots
Less
Exactly
Exactly What
Something Else
Strips
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I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.
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Allergies
People
Superhero
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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.
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Best Way
Century
Guy
Twentieth Century
Way
Supposed
Twentieth
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What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concentrate.
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Ideas
Justice
Oil
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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.
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Trust
Enough
Ifs
Preconceptions
Salt
Apply
Author
Measure
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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.
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Exorcism
Shapes
Stuff
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Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless
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Firsts
Style
World
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It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace.
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Alive
Bookstores
Graphic Novels
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I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.
Art Spiegelman / Cartoonist
Believe
Book
Collectors
Nostalgic
Real
Vinyl
Believe Always Will
Loves
Remain
Same Thing
Substantial
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Right now anything made for the iPad is like performance art. I'm not interested in performance art. Comics are too hard to make to be done for such a passing blip. When it stabilizes, I'll look at it.
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Art
Ipads
Looks
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I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.
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Guilt
Parent
Wish
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What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because it seems like an extension of the fashion trade and the stock market.
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Art
Fashion
Trade
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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.
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Brain
Pieces
Rubble
Trajectory
Trying
Mosaic
Pick
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In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.
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Childhood
Profound
Reality
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One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.
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Ambition
Reality
Understanding
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he 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.
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Technology
Beautiful
Book
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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.
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Capable
Middle
Middle Ages
Ages
Phrase
Threatens
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If you're going to visit and re-visit a book, it has more reason to be a real book, because of that ability to concentrate and that relationship that you build up with it, as opposed to the relationship that you build up with your screen, rewards replacement.
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Book
Real
Rewards
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I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.
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Art
Thinking
Validation
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I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.
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Better Off
Book
Function
Needs
Reserved
Supplements
Updates
Best Future Better
Date
Download
Inventions
Textbook
Update
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The book has very specific qualities. Let's say in 2300 they discover the physical book, after having lived with the digital book for several hundred years. They'll be able to say, "Look at all the cool stuff you can have in a real book and how different it is." The differences are manifold.
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Book
Real
Years
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Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if it were a Pavlovian thing. There's a little action that happens. And that there's always a little pump of adrenaline that happens. But that pump is different when you're lifting a page as if it was a curtain in a theater to show you another thing.
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Book
Ipads
Reading
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I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update. If you're going to read a quick mystery novel to keep you amused while you're traveling, it's fine.
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Book
Mystery Novels
Updates
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I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.
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Book
Reading
Thinking
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Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just like having soft clay until it hardens. At least as much of the problem has to do with the decisions of what to represent, how to represent that, and how to reduce it down. The words in the balloons aren't particularly poetic necessarily, but it has the same problem as poetry, which is that one has to do great reduction. And if I tried to draw everything, you'd just have a tangled mess of a picture. The stripping down takes much longer than building up.
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Computer
Decision
Tangled
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On September 11 one of the messages on our answering machine was from The New Yorker saying get down here right away for a special issue we'll be doing. That seemed so irrelevant to me, considering the cataclysm. I went to my studio for a while and I was processing the news. Because when we were in the thick of it, it just felt like Mars Attacks!, Is Paris Burning?, and I had no perspective. For a while, I thought I should go down and look for bodies. At the same time, since The New Yorker was looking for images, I thought, "Well, I'm more trained to look for images than for bodies."
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Perspective
September 11
Special
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