Saul Steinberg Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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