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What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because it seems like an extension of the fashion trade and the stock market.
Art Spiegelman
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Art Spiegelman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 15
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Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman
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No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.
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There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.
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The book has very specific qualities. Let's say in 2300 they discover the physical book, after having lived with the digital book for several hundred years. They'll be able to say, Look at all the cool stuff you can have in a real book and how different it is. The differences are manifold.
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If you're going to visit and re-visit a book, it has more reason to be a real book, because of that ability to concentrate and that relationship that you build up with it, as opposed to the relationship that you build up with your screen, rewards replacement.
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I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.
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Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.
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I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.
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To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.
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It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called graphic novel section, because those are harder to replace.
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When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.
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A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.
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I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
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Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.
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Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.
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Samuel Beckett once said, Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. ...On the other hand, he SAID it.
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In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.
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With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
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I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.
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