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Quotes by Artist
"Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy."
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"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."
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"If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other."
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"We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town."
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"If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high."
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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."
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"Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way."
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"I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid."
Kids,
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"There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book."
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"I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing."
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"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you."
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"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."
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"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."
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"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."
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"You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening."
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
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"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."
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"The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity."
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"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity."
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"I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded."
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"Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching."
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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
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"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
Art,
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"Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean."
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"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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"I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there."
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"You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks.""
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"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects."
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"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry."
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"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."
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