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> [People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/people-aren-t-interested-in-seeing-themselves-as-they-really-are/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

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## More by Jim Woodring

> [If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/if-i-had-learned-how-to-get-along-in-the-quotidian-world-while/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/leslie-stein-s-comics-give-readers-privileged-access-to-a-complete/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/people-for-whom-art-is-religion-can-say-what-i-love-about-art-is-that/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/i-have-a-personal-definition-of-cartooning-which-is-simply/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/i-do-sort-of-feel-like-i-m-building-my-monument-with-what-i-do-but-it/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/doing-a-story-about-my-mundane-waking-life-how-much-i-don-t-like-my/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/alternative-cartoonists-have-to-rely-on-comic-book-stores-to-get/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/it-s-funny-in-some-of-the-interviews-i-ve-seen-that-were-done-for-the/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/real-shapes-and-real-patterns-are-things-you-would-observe-in-nature/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [“The 10's(2010) are a baby kangaroo, a bill overdue, a coal chute for staggering millions, a bowl of camphor punch, the fast-dissolving afterimages of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/the-10-s-2010-are-a-baby-kangaroo-a-bill-overdue-a-coal-chute-for/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think is good,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/when-i-was-setting-out-to-be-an-artist-i-said-if-i-can-just-produce/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/a-tree-is-an-incomprehensible-mystery/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/the-books-that-i-do-the-stories-i-write-i-m-glad-i-m-able-to-do-them/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/the-fiction-i-tend-to-like-is-nothing-like-my-own-work-i-like-the/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

> [Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/oh-i-was-never-a-very-big-jim-woodring-fan-i-ve-never-thought-his/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

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