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Our dreams make us large.
Life at best is bittersweet.
Perfectionists are their own devils.
Kid ... Comics will break your heart.
I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.
I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!
My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American.
I don't want to take somebody else's beating. That makes me unhappy.
I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.
I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.
All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.
If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.
I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.
Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.
Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.
I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.
Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.
I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.
Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.
Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!
A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.
Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.
The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.
My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.
I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.
You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.
I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.
I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.
I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.
I've never done anything half-heartedly. It's the reason my comics did well. It's the reason my comics were drawn well. I can't do anything bad.
A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.
I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.
It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.
I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.
My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.
My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics.
My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.
Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own.
I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it.