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"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days."
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"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."

"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."

"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

"My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task."

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."
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"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."

"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."

"Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece."

"But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before."

"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."

"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."

"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."

"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."

"When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing."
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