I Hated To Fight All

I Was Being Brought Up On Peasant Stories; My Mother Came From Europe And She'd Been A Peasant And That Was The Area Where The Frankensteins And The Draculas Came From And It Was Entertainment For The People. Nobody Had Tv, And That Was The Way Peasants Would Entertain Themselves, By Telling These Stories.

My Ambition Was Always To Be A Perfect Picture Of An American.

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.

You Had To Grow Up Sometime. The Fellows Who Grew Early, They Were In Jeopardy. They Became The Cops And The Crooks, And The Crooks Became The Gangsters. The Crooks Became The Al Capones.

If A Carpenter Makes A Chair That's Comfortable For The Person Who's Going To Sit In It, He's Done His Job. If A Train Engineer Gets A Train In On Time, He's Going To Make Someone Happy Who's Waiting At The Station. And If An Artist Draws The Kind Of A Picture That People Are Going To Enjoy Looking At, Or He Makes A Visual Story Which People Are Going To Enjoy Reading, He's Done His Job.