It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo PicassoRead
When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.
Interpretation
Underground comics represent artistic freedom without external constraints.
Robert Crumb highlights the essence of underground comics as a realm of creative liberation, where artists are unburdened by commercial pressures or oversight. This freedom allows for authentic expression, fostering unique narratives and styles that are often absent in mainstream comics.
In practice
During an art class, a student might refer to this quote to inspire peers about creating their own comics without fear.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
When I'm about to train a new opera, I first listen to how Jussi Björling did it. His voice was unique and it's his path that I want to follow. I would more than anything else wish that people compared me with Jussi Björling. It's like so I'm striving to sing.
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.
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