Art Spiegelman Quotes

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, 'I'm me. I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

No one's telling Tarantino what to do. You might like it or you might not like it, but the reality is he's getting his own vision out there.

My music is not like everybody gonna love it, it's really what I make of it.

I think that if you are looking at a comic that's made by one person, that there's just a level of intimacy that I don't really see anywhere else.

I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.

I live in my own bubble. I'm in Gublerland.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

I paint my own reality.

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

I am alone with the masses.

I paint with my back to the world

Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.

I'd never even thought about compromise when I worked in my studio. The major distinction is in the priority of who I ultimately wanted to please: myself or the audience.

We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.

I thought for a long time that within art, that you would come up with an idea, you would labor over it intensely until you felt like it was done, and then when you finished it, that was the final stage. I started to realize that that's not actually the completion of it. The final stage of any kind of art is to really lose control over it and let it affect other people. You can't control the effect that it has on people, but you hope that it has some sort of reaction. You just hope that they're not indifferent to it, you wanna make people feel something, whether it's love or hate.

I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.

All art is based on non-conformity.