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"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off."

"If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have."

"I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it."

"So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring."

"I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows."

"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."

"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
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