Art Spiegelman Quotes

• To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

  Art Spiegelman

  Struggle, Easy, Dies

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• Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

  Art Spiegelman

  Reading, Drug, Literacy

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• No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

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  Matter, Accomplish, Auschwitz

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• I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.

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  Parent, Wish, Guilt

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• When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

  Art Spiegelman

  Art, Technology, Dies

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

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  Artist, Parent, Degenerates

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.

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  Tree, Boulders, Natural

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• Creo que gran parte de Estados Unidos se volcó en el arte y la cultura tras el 11 de septiembre. Sé que las ventas de biblias se dispararon, pero también lo hicieron las de poesía. Creo que en una crisis uno mira a su propia cultura, en parte para dar validez a por qué uno querría que esa cultura sobreviviera.

  Art Spiegelman

  Art, Thinking, Validation

  "In the Shadow of No Towers". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 18, 2004.

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• I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.

  Art Spiegelman

  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

  "Art Spiegelman’s Life in the 'Shadow of Maus'". Interview with Eric Wuestewald, www.motherjones.com. January 6, 2014.

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• Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

  Art Spiegelman

  Hands, Silence, Unnecessary

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• What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concentrate.

  Art Spiegelman

  Ideas, Oil, Justice

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

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  Propaganda, Fascists, Pernicious

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics.

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  Escapism, Audience, My Own

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Un manifiesto, un diario, una nota de suicidio arrugada y una carta de amor aún vigente.

  Art Spiegelman

  Suicide, Diaries, Letters

  "Art Spiegelman on 'Breakdowns' Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. October 8, 2008.

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• With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

  Art Spiegelman

  Trust, Salt, Enough

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

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• In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.

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  Reality, Profound, Childhood

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• What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because it seems like an extension of the fashion trade and the stock market.

  Art Spiegelman

  Fashion, Art, Trade

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

  Art Spiegelman

  Definitions, Polemics, Wells

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

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• It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace.

  Art Spiegelman

  Alive, Bookstores, Graphic Novels

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.

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  Ambition, Reality, Understanding

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

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  Stars, Rocks, Cooking

  "Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory'". Financial Times, November 29, 2008.

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• he technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the "physical book," a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

  Art Spiegelman

  Beautiful, Book, Technology

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

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• I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.

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  People, Superhero, Allergies

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• If you're going to visit and re-visit a book, it has more reason to be a real book, because of that ability to concentrate and that relationship that you build up with it, as opposed to the relationship that you build up with your screen, rewards replacement.

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  Real, Book, Rewards

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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.

  Art Spiegelman

  Real, Book, Believe

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