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.

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  Meat, Republican, Life Is

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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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• 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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• If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

  Bill Griffith

  Wind, Ifs

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• I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

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  Art, New York, School

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

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  Rocks, Rock And Roll, America

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• I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

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  Opposites, Parent

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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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• 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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• My first character was Mr. Toad.

  Bill Griffith

  Character, Toads, Firsts

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• I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

  Bill Griffith

  Jokes

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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.

  Bill Griffith

  Real, Kids, Adults

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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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• 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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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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• 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.

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  Team, People, Over You

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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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• 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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