Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
BILL GRIFFITHVegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
More Bill Griffith Quotes
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Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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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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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
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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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When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
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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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Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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