Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.

Jim Woodring's Popular Quotes

I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a men…

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I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had a…

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Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interes…

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Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a liz…

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Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

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When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think is good, if I can become an obscure cult artist…

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Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

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When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the …

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It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

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