Quotes from Saul Steinberg

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

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

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

Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem.

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 life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Doodling is the brooding of the hand.

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.