Garry Trudeau - Best Quotes

When you're young with less on the line it's easier to be audacious to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation – politics sex drugs rock-and-roll etc. – to the comics page which for many years caused a rolling furor.

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In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Garry Trudeau

When you're young with less on the line it's easier to be audacious to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation – politics sex drugs rock-and-roll etc. – to the comics page which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Humor can inform and break down stigma which is a huge issue in the military.

Well it's a humor strip so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader… But if in addition I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me so much the better.