59 Quotes by Art Spiegelman

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.

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.

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.

Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right – that he could always SURVIVE – because he felt GUILTY about surviving.

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

Style is a capitalist invention. It’s a trademark. It’s very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn’t my first concern. I got restless.

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

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.

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