Art Spiegelman Quotes

It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.

I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil.

Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics.

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.

The only enemy of art is taste.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

My staged work looks so real that people actually take it for documentary. But, in fact, that is my intention, to disguise the manufacturedness of it. Half of my work, or probably more than that, is staged.