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Quotes by Cartoonist
"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."
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"They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer."
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"High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances."
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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."
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"I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books."
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"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
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"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
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"In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home."
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"I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's."
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"In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too."
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"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
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"Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was."
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"And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers."
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"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."
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"Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better."
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"I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons."
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"The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference."
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"The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up."
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"All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show."
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"There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population."
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"Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected."
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"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."
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"Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year."
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"I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals."
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"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid."
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"Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number."
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"Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution."
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"You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present."
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"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen."
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"You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian."
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"When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since."
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"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."
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"There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists."
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"I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea."
Idea,
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"Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines."
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"It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare."
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"I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider."
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"My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff."
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"Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery."
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"With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself."
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"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities."
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"The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping."
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"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons."
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"We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled."
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