Best 23 quotes of Bill Griffith on MyQuotes

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

I just became one with my browser software.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.