Bill Griffith famous quotes

04-05-2025

I just became one with my browser software.
-- Bill Griffith

#Computer #Software
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
-- Bill Griffith

#Artist #Problem #Doing Good
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
-- Bill Griffith

#Levels #Way #Condescending
I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
-- Bill Griffith

#Jokes
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
-- Bill Griffith

#Mother #Father #Army
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
-- Bill Griffith

#Opposites #Parent
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
-- Bill Griffith

#Community #Conformity #Kind
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
-- Bill Griffith

#Light #Culture #Sides
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
-- Bill Griffith

#Artist #Years #Umpires
My first character was Mr. Toad.
-- Bill Griffith

#Character #Toads #Firsts
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
-- Bill Griffith

#Half #Pleasure
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
-- Bill Griffith

#Wind
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.
-- Bill Griffith

#Art #New York #School
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.
-- Bill Griffith

#Real #Kids #Adults
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
-- Bill Griffith

#Frivolity
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
-- Bill Griffith

#Meat #Life Is #Republican
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
-- Bill Griffith

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #America
When I was an art student in the early 60â€²s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
-- Bill Griffith

#Art #Smoking #Acid
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
-- Bill Griffith

#Reality #Attention #Way
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
-- Bill Griffith

#Art #Romantic Love #Vision
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.
-- Bill Griffith

#Sister #Father #Artistic
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
-- Bill Griffith

#Religious #Vegetarianism #Feelings
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.
-- Bill Griffith

#Team #People #Over You
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
-- Bill Griffith

#Hate #Kids #Thinking
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
-- Bill Griffith

#Character #Feminist #Littles
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
-- Bill Griffith

#Drawing #Style #Rich
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
-- Bill Griffith

#People #Language
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
-- Bill Griffith

#Acid #Bigs

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