There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you're ready to let it go.
Interpretation
Art is a process that can feel incomplete, and comics emphasize the need to finish and move on.
This quote reflects on the nature of artistic creation, suggesting that art often feels unfinished, but comics, due to their structured format and deadlines, require artists to complete their work even when they might feel it's not ready. This compulsion to 'abandon' the piece allows artists to finish their projects and move on to new ones, fostering growth and new ideas.
In practice
Use this quote during a panel discussion on the creative process in comic book creation.
It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well as all the tributaries that would swell it, and the obstacles that would divert it. If only she could reproduce the clear light of a summer's morning.
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment
If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!
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