I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
BILL GRIFFITHGoing too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
More Bill Griffith Quotes
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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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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
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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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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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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 just became one with my browser software.
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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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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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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 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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