The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that’d done them for a living. And I didn’t have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn’t have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.
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More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one.
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I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
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The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I’d never had before. I didn’t meet the people who read my material.
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I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child – which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.
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Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us…
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.
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I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
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My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.
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I knew ‘Mars Needs Moms! ‘ would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
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I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
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It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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I’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
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I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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Steve Dallas…a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He’s never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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A turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird… a social being… capable of actual affection… nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it’s dead and we’re gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
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