When a drawing doesn't come out right it's because I haven't figured out where the joke is. Not that every drawing has a joke, but every drawing has …

- Edward Sorel

Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid, insensitive, and c…

- Edward Sorel

I was always nervous, always scared. That's stayed with me my whole life. I think it's all our genes. We're all stuck with ourselves. I wish I were c…

- Edward Sorel

Like every young man growing up in the puritanical Eisenhower 1950s, I had a hell of a time getting laid. I suppose that's why I was always intrigued…

- Edward Sorel

We all wish we were better. I wish I were a better artist, wish I were a kinder person, wish I were all kinds of things. But we're stuck with ourselv…

- Edward Sorel

The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity that keeps a work fre…

- Edward Sorel

I always get scared doing a job. To this day, I start every job thinking, I really can't do this. And what I do when I'm insecure is I tighten up. If…

- Edward Sorel

I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling a story you need a background…

- Edward Sorel

My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a m…

- Edward Sorel