Bill Griffith quotes
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“I just became one with my browser software.”
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“I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.”
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“Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.”
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“I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.”
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“I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.”
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“Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.”
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“The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.”
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“Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.”
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“Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.”
-- Bill GriffithSource : "Questions for Griffy". Interview with Gary Panter, www.tcj.com. March 21, 2012.
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“If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.”
-- Bill GriffithSource : Bill Griffith (2012). “Lost and Found: Comics 1969-2003”, p.365, Fantagraphics Books
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“All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.”
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“Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.”
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“When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.”
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“Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.”
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“Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.”
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“Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.”
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“A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.”
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“Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.”
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“Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.”
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