Quotes by Saul Steinberg

About Saul Steinberg:

Saul Steinberg was a Jewish Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as "a writer who draws".
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The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Saul Steinberg

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.

Saul Steinberg

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.

Saul Steinberg

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

Saul Steinberg

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

Saul Steinberg

Author Bio

  • NameSaul Steinberg
  • DescriptionAmerican cartoonist
  • BornJune 15, 1914
  • DiedMay 12, 1999
  • CountryRomania; United States Of America
  • ProfessionComics Artist
  • WorksView Of The World From 9th Avenue