Art Spiegelman
Artist
1948-02-15
American cartoonist and editor best known for Maus, a landmark graphic narrative on Holocaust memory and intergenerational trauma. His work has had major influence on comics, visual storytelling, and contemporary nonfiction narrative. He has also contributed to magazine illustration and editorial commentary.
Quotes by Art Spiegelman
-
But here God didn't come. We were all on our own.
Read quote -
But here God didn't come. We were all on our own.
Read quote -
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.
Read quote -
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.
Read quote -
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.
Read quote -
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 So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.
Read quote -
I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.
Read quote -
Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.
Read quote