But with comics you’re reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it’s harder to break out than ever.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious.

If you’re going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.

The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she...

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

I don’t have big anxieties. I wish I did. I’d be much more interesting.

No, seriously, I really don’t have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

I paint my paintings directly. I almost never paint over. This maintains the attention of the picture for me, my contact with what I am doing.

Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.

I think we’re much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.

Adequacy is sufficient.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.

I suppose I’m most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

That’s the way I work. Usually I start by fooling with the stuff, make messes. Sometimes something comes out of it; sometimes it doesn’t.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can’t do anything, but it really isn’t true.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

It’s interesting, because in the corporate stuff there’s a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be...

Well, I’d say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim’s, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a...

Loving once and only once is possible – anything is possible.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

Especially with Elektra, because I’m doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don’t want to work.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30’s, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right’ Sean’s doing his own thing.

I’m interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it’s the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can’t...

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it’s still a good buy.

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning’s work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about...

Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.

The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I’ve kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I’ve done it by living in the country within commuting...

When I turned 60, it didn’t bother me at all.

To have all your life’s work and to have them along the wall, it’s like walking in with no clothes on. It’s terrible.

Kyle Baker’s work is really funny, but it’s also got a very clear vision.

Well, let’s say we acknowledged the School of French Painting – the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time – condemned to painting for life.

Being alone is very difficult.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

The will to label will always prevail over what’s being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.