Saul Steinberg Quotes

Saul Steinberg — American Artist born on June 15, 1914, died on May 12, 1999

Saul Erik Steinberg was a Romanian and American cartoonist and illustrator, 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"... (wikipedia)

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

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

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

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.

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.

Saul Steinberg Quotes

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