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I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.
I used to pick up lettering jobs when I was first starting in the business like in between if I couldn't get other work.
There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.
It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.
I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.
For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.
I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.
Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.
You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.
Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.
I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.
I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.
I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.
There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.
Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy.
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.
Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.
Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.
You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.
I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.
Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.
I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.
I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.
The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.
Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.
There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.
I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.
Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.
It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.
Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that.
I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - folding them over and stapling them.
If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.
Left right left right. We're army ants. We swarm we fight. We have no home. We roam. We race. You're lucky if we miss your place.
We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand.
I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.