It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn’t looking.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil, or it's all been done before? Make good art.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We are,” said Mr. Croup, “after all, famed across the entirety of creation for our skill in the excruciatory arts.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician --… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image