Bill Griffith Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.”

“My first character was Mr. Toad.”

“Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.”

“Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.”

“Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.”

“Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.”

“Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.”

“Zippy is living in the moment.”

“I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.”

“She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.”