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.
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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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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My first character was Mr. Toad.
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
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Vegetarianism 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.
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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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Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
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Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as 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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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
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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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Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
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I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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