Saul Steinberg Quotes

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic training.

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Saul Steinberg

Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914 – May 12, 1999) was a Romanian-American artist, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as "a writer who draws".

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Saul Steinberg

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic training.

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Saul Steinberg

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.

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Saul Steinberg

People who see a drawing in the New Yorker will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction.

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Saul Steinberg

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

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The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

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The artist is an educator of artists of the future... Who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected -- the best -- evolutions.

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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

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