Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.
By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.
Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
When I was younger, when I was a teenager, the work was more satirical and funny and cartoony. And part of it was chops - if you have a more limited repertoire of stick figures and cartoon characters, they lend themselves more to humor than to tragedy.
The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial to dwell in the present moment.
There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.
Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more.
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.