I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
BERKELEY BREATHEDThe 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.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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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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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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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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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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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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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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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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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If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.
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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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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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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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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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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 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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