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.
BILL GRIFFITHIf something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
More Bill Griffith Quotes
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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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 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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Mike Judge, who I’ve become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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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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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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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
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I just became one with my browser software.
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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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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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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
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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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