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I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Bil Keane

Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I’m getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you’re gonna let me in I’m getting tired and I need somewhere to begin.
BIL KEANE

Beginning Myself Need Old Simplicity
Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
BIL KEANE

History Powerful Today Yesterday
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
BIL KEANE

Future Gift Past Present Time
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
BIL KEANE

Daddy Divorce Father
I like to feel that what I’m doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It’s a subject that is near and dear to me.
BIL KEANE

Family Feeling Love Mom Myself
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
BIL KEANE

Cartoon Inspiration Real
I don’t have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That’s more important to me than a laugh.
BIL KEANE

Drawing Important Laughing Throat
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late ’30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
BIL KEANE

Drawing School Teacher
I don’t just try to be funny.
BIL KEANE

Funny Myself One Liner Try
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
BIL KEANE

Eye Heart Laughing
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
BIL KEANE

Bitter Life Love Sick Start
I don’t just try to be funny.
BIL KEANE

Funny Just Trying
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
BIL KEANE

Cartoon Character Thinking
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
BIL KEANE

Home Peace Place Sacred
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.
BIL KEANE

Looks Magazines Television
Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme
BIL KEANE

Children Feelings Love

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