Ocupation: Cartoonist
Life: b. 1947
I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.
Topics: Writing, Diaries, Eighteen
Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.
Topics: Art, School, Class, Art School
My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll? No. I wanted a guitar, but my mother didn't really want me to have one. At some point I played a violin, but I didn't last long at that.
Topics: Mother, Father, Rocks
I like to follow my own muse.
Topics: Muse, My Own
In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.
Topics: Real, Eye, People
You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.
Topics: Reality, Illustration, Feelings
Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.
Topics: Energy, Pieces, Exciting
Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."
Topics: Art, Want, Fine
Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?
Topics: Space, Want, Time And Space
