Art Spiegelman quotes

Art Spiegelman is an American cartoonist, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel "Maus." His work explores complex themes such as memory, trauma, and the Holocaust through comics. He has had a profound impact on the acceptance of graphic novels as serious literature. Here are 22 of his quotes:

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism. (Art Spiegelman)
A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter. View quote
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Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star. View quote
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Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult. View quote
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I was asking the school shrink, 'Has anyone ever told you the top of your head looks like a penis?' I thought that was a really funny thing to tell a bald shrink. View quote
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Comics are a gateway drug to literacy. View quote
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With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. View quote
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he technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the "physical book," a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. View quote
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I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing. View quote
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I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update. View quote
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I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory. (Art Spiegelman)
Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ... On the other hand, he SAID it. View quote
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No, darling! To die it's easy... But you have to stuggle for life! View quote
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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. View quote
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I guess I don't subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread. View quote
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I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit. View quote
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What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half. View quote
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Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything. View quote
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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. View quote
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Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk. View quote
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Disaster is my muse. (Art Spiegelman)
I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing. View quote
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