Jules Feiffer Quotes

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.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

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

We want playmates we can own.

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.

Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain.

Good swiping is an art in itself.

I've never met a cartoonist who isn't quirky or weird in some ways.

There's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that.

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.

I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how much fun they have - you'll resent it.

I'm well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am.

design is so important because chaos is so hard

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?