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A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.

It's funny how easy it is to point out other peoples mistakes and make our own mistakes seem insignificant.

My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.

I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

A good commander can beat the odds. A great commander can beat the gods.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.

Homo Sapiens and their guns.

I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.

Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others
almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

I don't want to take somebody else's beating. That makes me unhappy.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.

Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American.

It's not letting your anger out that gets people hurt. Its keeping the anger locked up in side that hurts you.

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

Life at best is bittersweet.

Our dreams make us large.

Kid ... Comics will break your heart.