Bill Griffith Quotes

I just became one with my browser software.

Bill Griffith

Computer, Software, Browsers

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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.

Bill Griffith

Artist, Problem, Doing Good

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Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

Bill Griffith

People, Language

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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

Bill Griffith

Meat, Republican, Life Is

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Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Bill Griffith

Community, Conformity, Kind

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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Bill Griffith

Frivolity

Bill Griffith (2012). “Lost and Found: Comics 1969-2003”, p.365, Fantagraphics Books

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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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Real, Kids, Adults

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Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

Bill Griffith

Levels, Way, Condescending

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I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

Bill Griffith

Jokes

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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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Mother, Father, Army

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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Bill Griffith

Drawing, Style, Rich

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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.

Bill Griffith

Character, Alaska, Feminist

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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.

Bill Griffith

Art, Marijuana, Smoking

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Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Bill Griffith

Reality, Attention, Way

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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

Bill Griffith

Romantic, Art, Vision

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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.

Bill Griffith

Sister, Father, Artistic

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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.

Bill Griffith

Religious, Food, Vegetarianism

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Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

Bill Griffith

Acid, Bigs, Acid Rain

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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

Bill Griffith

Hate, Kids, Thinking

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What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

Bill Griffith

Team, People, Over You

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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Bill Griffith

Opposites, Parent

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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Bill Griffith

Light, Culture, Sides

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Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

Bill Griffith

Artist, Years, Umpires

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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

Bill Griffith

Half, Pleasure

"Questions for Griffy". Interview with Gary Panter, www.tcj.com. March 21, 2012.

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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

Bill Griffith

Rocks, Rock And Roll, America

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Born: January 20, 1944
Occupation: Cartoonist
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