Berkeley Breathed Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.”

“And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.”

“Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.”

“I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.”

“If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.”

“I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.”

“I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.”

“Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.”

“Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.”

“Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.”