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.
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
I feel like I'm always learning from people.
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
Peter Gibbons: What am I gonna do with 40 subscriptions to Vibe?
I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
Peter Gibbons: That's what I'm talkin' about when I talk about America!
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians.
One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.
I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
Dom Portwood: Hi, Peter. What's happening? We need to talk about your TPS reports. Peter Gibbons: Yeah. The coversheet. I know, I know. Uh, Bill talked to me about it. Dom Portwood: Yeah. Did you get that memo? Peter Gibbons: Yeah. I got the memo. An...
Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
After being in a studio, working on games stuff, I'm like, 'Oh my God, I wish I could just sit in my room for a week and listen to music and draw by myself.'
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
Peter Gibbons: I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "money laundering" in a dictionary.
