I Admired Anybody Who Could Make A

I Would've Liked To Have Been A Better Businessman When I Was Younger. And Of Course, I Couldn't, Because It Wasn't Part Of My Atmosphere. I Never Lived With Accountants, I Never Lived With Lawyers.

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.

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 Taught Myself How To Draw, And I Soon Found Out It Was What I Really Wanted To Do. I Didn't Think I Was Going To Create Any Great Masterpieces Like Rembrandt Or Gauguin. I Thought Comics Was A Common Form Of Art, And Strictly American In My Estimation, Because America Was The Home Of The Common Man - And Show Me The Common Man That Can't Do A Comic. So Comics Is An American Form Of Art That Anyone Can Do With A Pencil And Paper.