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Art Spiegelman
9 quotes
“What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”
Art Spiegelman (born 1948) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings (1995) edited by Lawrence Sutin, p. x.
“A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.”
Art Spiegelman (born 1948) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his work Breakdowns : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (1978; 2008) as quoted in "Art Spiegelman on ‘Breakdowns’ Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff in New York magazine (8 October 2008).
“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 (born 1948) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Art Spiegelman on ‘Breakdowns’ Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff in New York magazine (8 October 2008).
“I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.”
Art Spiegelman (born 1948) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his book Jack and the Box, as quoted in "Smart Art : Spiegelman doesn’t dumb down for kids" by Alexandra Zissu in New York Magazine (16 November 2008).
“I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit.”
Art Spiegelman (born 1948) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After taking all the difficult art classes, Spiegelman was required to take the easy ones to obtain an arts major. He discusses here switching instead to a philosophy major; as quoted in "Breakfast with the FT: Art Spie…
“I was asking the school shrink, 'Has anyone ever told you the top of your head looks like a penis?' I thought that was a really funny thing to tell a bald shrink.”
Art Spiegelman (born 1948) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory'" in Financial Times (29 November 2008).
“Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.”
Art Spiegelman (born 1948) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory'" in Financial Times (29 November 2008).
“I didn't make Maus to teach anyone anything. I wasn't making "Auschwitz for Beginners." And I do not want Maus to ever be used as a recruiting poster for the Israeli army!”
Art Spiegelman (born 1948) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking through a mouse-headed self-insert character in the February 2025 comic in the Guardian made with Joe Sacco "Two artists, one catastrophic war
“I never intended it to be for young adults, children, whatever. But over the years I’ve had to change my opinion. When I first got an award from the New York Public Library for best young adult book, I was annoyed, because I thought, “Thirteen years to make a book for adults, and here it is getting a young adult award.” And I’ve had to modify my position over the years because I’ve now met many, many children who have studied it in school, who found it on their own, who were given it by their parents, and it actually is received with a degree of real wisdom in their reading, based on the people I’ve talked to, the young people. So, I give up. Comics are for whoever can understand them.”
Art Spiegelman (born 1948) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his book Maus, in an interview with Democracy Now! (2 February 2022)