“I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.” Quote by Anthony Kiedis
“The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity that keeps a work fresh and funny. If they can see how hard you work, if they can see the beads of sweat, it's no good. I always try to make it look easy.” TryingArtProblemEasyArt IsComicSpontaneityOverwork Author:Edward Sorel
“My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.” MenKindRealArtistFallFailingWindow Author:Edward Sorel
“I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling a story you need a background. Just like a novelist needs background information to make a story interesting, I think an artist needs it for a picture too.” ThinkingArtistLove IsInterestingConvincing Author:Edward Sorel
“We all wish we were better. I wish I were a better artist, wish I were a kinder person, wish I were all kinds of things. But we're stuck with ourselves. I have good friends. And that in itself convinces me that I deserve to live.” KindArtistWishDeserveStuckAll KindsConvinceGood Friend Author:Edward Sorel
“Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid, insensitive, and cruel, thereby making me distrustful of all authority. On the other hand, I had a warm, supportive and encouraging mother, which made me want to fix the world.” WorldPoliticalMotherFatherRealizingPerfectStupidAuthorityLooking BackSupportiveCartoonistInsensitivePerfect Family Author:Edward Sorel
“I was always nervous, always scared. That's stayed with me my whole life. I think it's all our genes. We're all stuck with ourselves. I wish I were calm. Never get scared, always calm, but that's not me. I panic easily.” ThinkingWishCalmScaredWhole LifeStuckNervous Author:Edward Sorel
“Like every young man growing up in the puritanical Eisenhower 1950s, I had a hell of a time getting laid. I suppose that's why I was always intrigued by, and terribly envious of men who had no trouble at all in bedding a vast variety of desirable women.” MenHellGrowing UpTroubleVarietyEnviousIntriguedGetting Laid Author:Edward Sorel
“When a drawing doesn't come out right it's because I haven't figured out where the joke is. Not that every drawing has a joke, but every drawing has a point. At least it should have. And you figure out where the point is.” Jokes Author:Edward Sorel
“There's something human that has to do with time and space and being who I am that is in progress and always will be in progress. And who I am, on different days, different moments, depends on different aspects of my past.” DifferentMomentsPastProgressTime And SpaceMy Past Author:John Edgar Wideman
“Everything is up for grabs, everything is relative. Except nothing is if you are serious about it because the moment you become serious about answering a question you have a stake in it. Relatively goes out of the window, in one sense because you're putting your a** out there - you are depending on the answer, you need the answer.” MomentsSeriousWindowRelative Author:John Edgar Wideman