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Quotes by Artist
"It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft."
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"The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work."
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"Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline."
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"Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue."
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"The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people."
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"But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland."
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"I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other."
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"There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere."
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"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see."
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"Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends."
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"A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes."
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"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."
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"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."
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"Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.... Love is the best and noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by life as gold is tested by fire. Happy is he who has loved much, and although he may have wavered and doubted, he has kept that divine spark alive and returned to what was in the beginning and ever shall be. If only one keeps loving faithfully what is truly worth loving and does not squander one's love on trivial and insignificant and meaningless things then one will gradually obtain more light and grow stronger."
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"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it."
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"Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal."
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"Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age."
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"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
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"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible."
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"Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are."
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