Saul Steinberg Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.