Daniel Clowes Quotes

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• When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly…
• I try personally not to be nostalgic.
• In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
• You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand…
• But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and…
• I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing,…
• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with…
• I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read…
• I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that…
• It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw…
• I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
• I originally just wanted to be an artist.
• But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
• Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
• Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
• For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
• For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
• I don't read much of anything online.
• I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
• I never feel there's anything I can't do.

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