Art Spiegelman: Zitate auf Englisch
As quoted in "Art Spiegelman on ‘Breakdowns’ Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff in New York magazine (8 October 2008).
Quelle: Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Quelle: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
“No, darling! To die it's easy… But you have to stuggle for life!”
Variante: To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.
Quelle: The Complete Maus
“Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.”
As quoted in "Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory'" in Financial Times (29 November 2008).
On his book Jack and the Box, as quoted in "Smart Art : Spiegelman doesn’t dumb down for kids" by Alexandra Zissu in New York Magazine (16 November 2008) http://nymag.com/family/kids/52136/.
As quoted in "Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory'" in Financial Times (29 November 2008).
“A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.”
On his work Breakdowns : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (1978; 2008) as quoted in "Art Spiegelman on ‘Breakdowns’ Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff in New York magazine (8 October 2008) http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/10/art_spiegelman_on_breakdowns_r.html.
“I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit.”
After taking all the difficult art classes, Spiegelman was required to take the easy ones to obtain an arts major. He discusses here switching instead to a philosophy major; as quoted in "Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory'" in Financial Times (29 November 2008).
“What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”
As quoted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings (1995) edited by Lawrence Sutin, p. x.
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