The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
BERKELEY BREATHEDDoonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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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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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 paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
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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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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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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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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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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I’d wanted to do.
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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’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 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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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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