Quotes by Jules Feiffer

Jules Feiffer

And all the things I thought were mistakes and I did cartoons on them. And then I think I was the first cartoonist in the country to attack the war in Viet Nam and that helped influence a whole generation of young cartoonists who later on took up the battle. And that was exciting to know that I had helped influence work of young people who were moving this forum into a better and more exciting area, out of the more by the state that political cartooning had been in.

Country

Mistake

War

Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.

Art

Stupid

Thinking

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Confused

Stupid

Wise

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

Chaos

Design

Important

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Bed

Confidence

Morning

Good swiping is an art in itself.

Art

Robbery

I didn’t have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn’t have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the freedom, which unemployment gives you, and that was to behave as badly as I believed I should under the circumstances. And the circumstances were quite awful.

Giving

Losing

Reputation

I don’t know how comic artists feed their families, if they do. But it’s a fascinating form and so I think that after a long period of nothing happening and work, nothing very impressive, we are into another golden age of comics. Unfortunately, it’s not a golden age for the artists themselves economically. I don’t know how they get along.

Artist

Long

Thinking

I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. When I back up a car, I’m more likely to hit what’s behind me than not, because I have no vision for it. I’ve never been able to play games or play cards because I can’t in my head get the next move. I’ve never been able to balance a checkbook. So there’s some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do. I’ve never met a cartoonist who isn’t quirky or weird in some ways.

Brain

Car

Moving

I think a play can do almost anything, because it’s also a static form, much more so than in a movie. In a movie you can move the scenery, you can do anything any way. A cartoon, happens in a limited amount of space and a limited amount of time, and you can only get so many words before the reader’s gonna get impatient. All of these forms that I enjoy are in a sense a slight of hand, where you have to suggest much more than you really show. You have to, in a sense, seduce the reader and trick the reader or the audience into going with you.

Cartoon

Moving

Thinking

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Anxiety

Art

Artist

Attitude

Bed

Book

Brain

Brilliant

Car

Cartoon

Challenges

Chance

Chaos

Children

Confidence

Confused

Country

Creativity

Daughter

Design

Different

Doctors

Dyslexic

Energy

Forgiving

Frustration

Fun

Giving

Imagination

Important

Inspiration

Jesus

Kids

Kind

Knows

Littles

Long

Losing

Marriage

Mean

Mistake

Morning

Moving

Names

Normal

Past

People

Political

Racist

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Quotes by Jules Feiffer

Jules Feiffer

Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Good swiping is an art in itself.

I didn’t have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn’t have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the freedom, which unemployment gives you, and that was to behave as badly as I believed I should under the circumstances. And the circumstances were quite awful.

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