“It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.”

On calling himself a “citizen artist” in “The Artist as Leader: Luis Alfaro” https://www.uncsa.edu/kenan/artist-as-leader/luis-alfaro.aspx (Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts)

As quoted in Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations) (2005) by M. P. Singh, p. 86

A Testament (1957)

Source: The New Canada (1992), Chapter Seven, The Vancouver Assembly, p. 137

On how he turns toward art to communicate on his behalf in “Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Malaquias Montoya, Renowned Artist” https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2014/01/giving-a-voice-to-the-voiceless-malaquias-montoya-renowned-artist in The Bottom Line (2014 Jan 29)

Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 29, June 10, 1943.

Three Greek Plays, introduction (1937)
Context: There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

Source: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Five, The Phony War, p. 115

Source: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 96