Art Spiegelman: Quotes about life

Art Spiegelman is cartoonist from the United States. Explore interesting quotes on life.

Art Spiegelman: 26 quotes2 likes

“No, darling! To die it's easy… But you have to stuggle for life!”

Variant: To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.
Source: The Complete Maus

“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

Source: The Complete Maus

“I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.”

Art Spiegelman

On his book Jack and the Box, as quoted in "Smart Art : Spiegelman doesn’t dumb down for kids" by Alexandra Zissu in New York Magazine (16 November 2008) http://nymag.com/family/kids/52136/.