Saul Steinberg Quotes

Romania, Artist
June 15, 1914 – May, 12, 1999.

Saul Steinberg was a Romanian 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".

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Saul Steinberg
- Life
- Man
- Creative
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

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
- Beautiful
- Woman
- Painted
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
- Childhood
- Continue
- Draw
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
People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction.

Saul Steinberg
- See
- Drawing
- Artistic
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Saul Steinberg
- Building
- Draw
- Reasoned
I think, therefore Descartes exists.

Saul Steinberg
- Exists
- Descartes