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Bill Griffith Quotes
- Name:
- Bill Griffith
- Type:
- Cartoonist
- Nationality:
- American
- Birth day:
- January 20
- Birth year:
- 1944
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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat. Bill Griffith
- 2
Are we having fun yet? Bill Griffith
- 3
At this point it's kind of a faded, tattered dream, but over the years there was some serious effort and a lot of serious money spent to make a movie. Bill Griffith
- 4
But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before. Bill Griffith
- 5
Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized. Bill Griffith
- 6
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively. Bill Griffith
- 7
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. Bill Griffith
- 8
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. Bill Griffith
- 9
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster. Bill Griffith
- 10
I always thought of Levittown as a joke. Bill Griffith
- 11
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork. Bill Griffith
- 12
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. Bill Griffith
- 13
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips. Bill Griffith
- 14
I just became one with my browser software. Bill Griffith
- 15
I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy. Bill Griffith
- 16
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. Bill Griffith
- 17
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip. Bill Griffith
- 18
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. Bill Griffith
- 19
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist. Bill Griffith
- 20
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. Bill Griffith
- 21
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. Bill Griffith
- 22
Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut. Bill Griffith
- 23
When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing. Bill Griffith
- 24
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. Bill Griffith
- 25
When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it. Bill Griffith
- 26
Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything. Bill Griffith
- 27
Zippy is living in the moment. Bill Griffith
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Zippy is living in the moment. He's at peace with himself because he's out of step with everyone; he doesn't know it, and he doesn't care. Bill Griffith