I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
My success was the shock of recognition, probably, rather than the quality of the work. I mean, the quality may have been fine, but there's a lot of fine work out there. It was the fact that I was doing… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
When you do the kind of work I do, everything is challenging, but probably the most challenging thing is getting up in the morning… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
When people started reading me and talking to me about the work, they didn't say how funny, or how satiric, or how brilliant, or… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. When I back up a car, I'm more likely to hit what's… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I was doing cartoons and mocking white liberals, mocking the attitude of government who said to go slow, while intending to do absolutely nothing… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was a very… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Remember when you were a kid and the boys didn't like the girls? Only sissies liked girls? What I'm trying to tell you is… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought,… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too, but it… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know about today,… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
