There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

Cats rule the world.

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

I stop short of being a workaholic.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.