Top 55 Spiegelman Quotes
#1. That night,I lay on my side,staring out the window into the invisible world outside.I kept trying to fall asleep,but then my eyes would dart open,just to check.I couldn't help but hope that Margo Roth Spiegelman would return to my window and drag my tired ass through one more night I'd never forget.
John Green
#2. Everything's uglier close up -Margo Roth Spiegelman
John Green
#3. Here is Margo Roth Spiegelman, five feet away from me, her lips chapped to cracking, makeup-less, dirt in her fingernails, her eyes silent. I've never seen her eyes dead like that, but then again, maybe I've never seen her eyes before.
John Green
#4. Radar half raised his hand. I dutifully called on him. Yes, I was wondering if it would be possible for you to write a sestina about Margo Roth Spiegelman's breasts? Your six words are: pink, round, firmness, succulent, supple, and pillowy.
John Green
#5. Hey, I notice you look like you're coming down off a meth binge and smell vaguely of algae. Were you perchance dancing with a snakebit Margo Roth Spiegelman a couple of hours ago?
John Green
#6. But there she is, and I am watching her through the Plexiglas, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two
this girl who was an idea that I loved.
John Green
#7. Forever is composed of nows. - Margo Roth Spiegelman
John Green
#8. With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
Art Spiegelman
#9. If they brought you here,They'll put you to work. THEY'RE not readyto kill you YET.
Art Spiegelman
#10. I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics.
Art Spiegelman
#11. To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.
Art Spiegelman
#13. Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.
Art Spiegelman
#14. Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
Art Spiegelman
#15. Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.
Art Spiegelman
#16. I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.
Art Spiegelman
#17. Hospitals have missed the point that the best way to improve the patient experience is to build better engagement with their employees, who will then provide better service and health care to patients.
Paul Spiegelman
#18. I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.
Art Spiegelman
#19. Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time
John Green
#20. Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54)
John Green
#21. I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.
Art Spiegelman
#22. Its a paper town, with paper houses and paper people, everything is uglier up close.
John Green
#23. A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.
Willard Spiegelman
#24. I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.
Art Spiegelman
#26. All those poeple living in their paper houses, burning they paper future to stay warm. All the paper kids, drinking paper beer some bum bought for them at the paper convienience store ... All this things paper-thin and paper-frail.
John Green
#27. No, darling! To die it's easy ... But you have to stuggle for life!
Art Spiegelman
#28. Yes, life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed. But it wasn't the best people who survived, nor did the best ones die. It was random!
Art Spiegelman
#29. Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
...On the other hand, he SAID it.
Art Spiegelman
#31. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.
John Green
#32. I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.
Art Spiegelman
#33. What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because it seems like an extension of the fashion trade and the stock market.
Art Spiegelman
#34. I know this is insane, but I somehow wish I had been in Auschwitz with my parents so I could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.
Art Spiegelman
#35. Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
John Green
#36. I'm not talking about YOUR book now, but look at how many books have already been written about the Holocaust. What's the point? People haven't changed ... Maybe they need a newer, bigger Holocaust.
Art Spiegelman
#37. No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.
Art Spiegelman
#38. There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.
Art Spiegelman
#40. As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past.
John Green
#41. Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless
Art Spiegelman
#43. I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
Art Spiegelman
#44. I laugh, but I'm still thinking about ten-year-old Margo having a crush on ten-year-old me.
John Green
#45. In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true!
Art Spiegelman
#46. At the end of the day, our recovery must be based not on shame or perfectionism or the need to impress others, but on our willingness to be kind to ourselves.
Erica Spiegelman
#47. I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.
Art Spiegelman
#48. I always got very nervous whenever I heard that Margo was about to show up, on account of how she was the most fantastically gorgeous creature that God has ever created.
John Green
#49. I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.
Art Spiegelman
#50. I saw a pattern forming, like a series of skipping stones that sent ripples through the generations: all the granddaughters and grandmothers who loved each other, all the mothers left stranded in between.
Nadja Spiegelman
#51. One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.
Art Spiegelman
#52. A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.
Art Spiegelman
#53. The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.
Art Spiegelman
#54. Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week ... Then you could see what it is, friends! ...
Art Spiegelman
#55. Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.
Art Spiegelman
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