Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITHVegetarianism 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.
More Bill Griffith Quotes
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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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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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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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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 hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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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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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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My first character was Mr. Toad.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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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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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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