10 Quotes by Saul Steinberg

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Chi disegna non deve perdersi d'animo, lasciarsi scoraggiare da un momento di stanchezza o di confusione. Deve insistere, perché la cosa giusta viene solo dopo il momento di disperazione. Invece a volte, appena lo scoraggiamento arriva, si smette, si abbandona il terreno. È un errore.

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic training.

People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future . . . who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected -- the best -- evolutions.

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.