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“All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim situations. It was always cartoony.”

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Barry Blitt, born on April 30, 1958, is a renowned American artist known for his unique sense of humor and satirical illustrations. His work often appears on the cover and in the illustrations of The New Yorker magazine. Blitt's career in illustration began with advertising and magazine illustrations, and his works have been widely appreciated by the public. more

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“I felt it was more fun to knock people down than to build them up. I seemed to get a better reaction from my peers and from my friends when I was mocking stuff - which isn't necessarily anything to be too proud of.”

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“I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.”

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“I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question.”

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“When I'm online and I see a picture I want to draw of anybody or anything, a unique angle of them or just something that looks very drawable, I slide it to my desktop and put it in a folder. It just seems like every picture of Trump is a revelation. Any angle. I didn't know a person could look like that. His facial expressions - he really is a cartoon. He's like an instruction manual of how to caricature someone.”

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“The back of Donald Trump's head is fantastic and his eyebrows are amazing. His overbite and his series of chins and the color of him and the texture. It's amazing! He's like an artifact. It's an amazing head to draw and I have to think it's got to be part of his success. It's ready-made for public consumption.”

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“Just look at the back of Donald Trump's head, any angle. There's some angles that his chin is just, what do I mean? I mean he's sculpted out of some kind of pudding, I think. It looks like his face is sort of melting slowly. I should talk because my face is melting quickly. He's some kind of bizarre sculpture. There's no one really who looks like that.”

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“The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.”

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“I've been thinking of trying to de-caricaturize Donald Trump. I thought it would be fun to try and, since he's already a caricature, to make him normal looking.”

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“If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.”

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“I like to make myself laugh. When I'm just sitting with a sketchbook and trying to make myself laugh or trying to come up with ideas, I try not to worry about aim right away. I'm just sort of shooting in all directions.”

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