Garry Trudeau Quotes

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid to break rules or barriers or invent something new - and if you love fashion, then you need to be able to do that.

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

'The Sound Of Silence' taught us that we shouldn't be afraid of pushing the boundaries.

I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.

There are certain things I would never write about - anything that's too distasteful. I think that you can withhold information.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.

I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like being deflated, which makes it all the more important to continue to deflate them. These are very courageous people around the world who poke fun from inside these societies. So, we now have to broaden the definition of what we mean by "writer" to include bloggers, cartoonists, song writers, visual artists - all these people are, in different ways, quite brave.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I feel like it's super possible these days for people to make anything, no matter who you are or where you come from. And that's really exciting. I'm excited to see people around me pushing boundaries in that way, not letting certain structures define them or what art they can make.

Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against something while we're writing. Or if it's a definition that we want to defend and uphold, we are given a sense of the boundaries within which we can work.

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your way of looking at things within very narrow boundaries or else you'll offend someone. Certainly one of the purposes of journalism is to challenge just that way of thinking, and certainly one of the purposes of criticism is to break boundaries, that's also one of the purposes of art.