Best quotes by Harvey Pekar on Art

Checkout quotes by Harvey Pekar on Art

• ‟ It dawned on me that comics were not an intrinsically limited medium. There was a tremendous amount of things you could do in comics that you couldn't do in other art forms - but no one was doing it. I figured if I'd make a try at it, I'd at least be a footnote in history.

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• ‟ I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art.

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• ‟ I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

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• ‟ I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

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• ‟ Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class.

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• ‟ I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or whatever. I like to see innovation. I don't like it when an art form becomes stagnant.

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