Art Spiegelman Quotes - Page 2

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• I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update. If you're going to read a quick mystery novel to keep you amused while you're traveling, it's fine.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Mystery Novels, Updates

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

  Art Spiegelman

  Stuff, Exorcism, Shapes

  "Art Spiegelman on 'Breakdowns' Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff, New York magazine, October 8, 2008.

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• Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

  Art Spiegelman

  Adults, Sometimes, Feels

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• Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if it were a Pavlovian thing. There's a little action that happens. And that there's always a little pump of adrenaline that happens. But that pump is different when you're lifting a page as if it was a curtain in a theater to show you another thing.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Reading, Ipads

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just like having soft clay until it hardens. At least as much of the problem has to do with the decisions of what to represent, how to represent that, and how to reduce it down. The words in the balloons aren't particularly poetic necessarily, but it has the same problem as poetry, which is that one has to do great reduction. And if I tried to draw everything, you'd just have a tangled mess of a picture. The stripping down takes much longer than building up.

  Art Spiegelman

  Tangled, Decision, Computer

  Source: progressive.org

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• In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true!

  Art Spiegelman

  Cartoonist, Stills

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• I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

  Art Spiegelman

  Guy, Way, Century

  "Art Spiegelman: The Sky Is Falling". Interview with Steven Heller, www.aiga.org. October 01, 2004.

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• I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.

  Art Spiegelman

  Brain, Trying, Pieces

  "Art Spiegelman: The Sky Is Falling". Interview with Steven Heller, www.aiga.org. October 01, 2004.

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• The book has very specific qualities. Let's say in 2300 they discover the physical book, after having lived with the digital book for several hundred years. They'll be able to say, "Look at all the cool stuff you can have in a real book and how different it is." The differences are manifold.

  Art Spiegelman

  Real, Book, Years

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless

  Art Spiegelman

  Style, World, Firsts

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• I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Needs, Updates

  "Art Spiegelman On The Future of the Book". Interview with Brian Heater, www.publishersweekly.com. October 11, 2011.

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• On September 11 one of the messages on our answering machine was from The New Yorker saying get down here right away for a special issue we'll be doing. That seemed so irrelevant to me, considering the cataclysm. I went to my studio for a while and I was processing the news. Because when we were in the thick of it, it just felt like Mars Attacks!, Is Paris Burning?, and I had no perspective. For a while, I thought I should go down and look for bodies. At the same time, since The New Yorker was looking for images, I thought, "Well, I'm more trained to look for images than for bodies."

  Art Spiegelman

  Perspective, September 11, Special

  Source: progressive.org

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• Right now anything made for the iPad is like performance art. I'm not interested in performance art. Comics are too hard to make to be done for such a passing blip. When it stabilizes, I'll look at it.

  Art Spiegelman

  Art, Ipads, Looks

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.

  Art Spiegelman

  Wanted, Reviewers

  "Art Spiegelman: The Sky Is Falling". Interview with Steven Heller, www.aiga.org. October 01, 2004.

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• Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.

  Art Spiegelman

  Yelling, Tvs

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