Spiegelman's Quotes

DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS A MIDGET MUST GO! — Art Spiegelman

If they brought you here,They'll put you to work. THEY'RE not readyto kill you YET. — Art Spiegelman

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter. — Art Spiegelman

I laugh, but I'm still thinking about ten-year-old Margo having a crush on ten-year-old me. — John Green

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

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

Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54) — John Green

Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk. — Art Spiegelman

Its a paper town, with paper houses and paper people, everything is uglier up close. — John Green

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. — Art Spiegelman

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

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

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy. — Art Spiegelman

In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true! — Art Spiegelman

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. — John Green

No, darling! To die it's easy ... But you have to stuggle for life! — Art Spiegelman

Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week ... Then you could see what it is, friends! ... — Art Spiegelman

Disaster is my muse. — Art Spiegelman

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

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. — Art Spiegelman

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

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. — Art Spiegelman

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult — Art Spiegelman

Forever is composed of nows. - Margo Roth Spiegelman — John Green

Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time — John Green

A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters. — Willard Spiegelman

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will — John Green

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. — Art Spiegelman

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life. — Art Spiegelman

Everything's uglier close up -Margo Roth Spiegelman — John Green