I've never met a cartoonist who isn't quirky or weird in some ways. Jules Feiffer More Quotes by Jules Feiffer More Quotes From Jules Feiffer When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on. Jules Feiffer actorsplaywriting We want playmates we can own. Jules Feiffer marriagewant Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw. Jules Feiffer lightwritingpast Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence. Jules Feiffer confidencebedmorning Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence. Jules Feiffer persistenceluckmind The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain. Jules Feiffer brainwritinglittles The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and attitudes towards each other. The children's books come from the reverse. They're more supportive, since we're living in a time where we talk more about kids and do less, we talk about balancing the budget and we do it by cutting education. Jules Feiffer attitudebookchildren I'm not electronically geared at all; I'm really a 19th century cartoonist. I have a 15-year-old daughter, and what she's attracted to is of course iPod and this pod and that, I mean stuff I don't even begin to know - I never learned how to type for Christ's sake! I can't get in her head and find out what she would do if she had the kind of talent I had, I don't have a clue. Every generation comes up with its own quirkiness and its own culture which gets its inspiration from what's in the air at that time. Jules Feiffer daughterinspirationmean I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too, but it was more in the direction of where it was headed. I didn't have a clue as to the drawing style, because the drawing style that I was groomed on from the beginning was newspaper comic strips, which were much more conventional. Jules Feiffer drawingstrongideas Good swiping is an art in itself. Jules Feiffer robberyart There's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that. Jules Feiffer racistrapnames And all the things I thought were mistakes and I did cartoons on them. And then I think I was the first cartoonist in the country to attack the war in Viet Nam and that helped influence a whole generation of young cartoonists who later on took up the battle. And that was exciting to know that I had helped influence work of young people who were moving this forum into a better and more exciting area, out of the more by the state that political cartooning had been in. Jules Feiffer mistakewarcountry There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do. Jules Feiffer damagebrainmay Kids are in ongoing need of support, and they get various versions of it from grownups which aren't legitimate - a grownup's version of what we think you should have. We tell you what creativity is, and we even tell you what you're thinking. Jules Feiffer creativitykidsthinking I'm well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. Jules Feiffer dyslexicwellsknows I was doing cartoons and mocking white liberals, mocking the attitude of government who said to go slow, while intending to do absolutely nothing for black people, then called Negroes. And I had a lot of fun and I expressed a lot of anger. That was a thing that was important to know at that time. As I was emerging into more and more into politics that I was angry. Jules Feiffer attitudefunpeople I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap. Jules Feiffer writingpeoplethinking At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? Jules Feiffer confusedstupidwise Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? Jules Feiffer forgivingreligionjesus Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was a very acceptable balance what people would talk about in public. And I wanted to stretch those and move further out. And as the civil rights movement began, I started doing cartoons on that and on sit-ins and I was, along with Bill Mauldin, a great cartoonist out of World War II, arguably one of two white cartoonists doing this kind of work, Bill and me. Jules Feiffer warcountrymoving
