Ken Baumann

“The Runaway Five's obvious influence is The Blues Brothers. During localization, their black and white suits were made more colorful to avoid…

— Ken Baumann

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

— Ken Baumann

Every once in awhile, find a spot of shade, sit down on the grass or dirt, and ask yourself this question: “Do…

— Ken Baumann

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away…

— Ken Baumann

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

— Ken Baumann

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such…

— Ken Baumann

I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since…

— Ken Baumann

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will…

— Ken Baumann

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

— Ken Baumann

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

— Ken Baumann

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

— Ken Baumann

“If we were to take EarthBound's early hours as material evidence of Shigesato Itoi's impressions of American culture, we would have to…

— Ken Baumann

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

— Ken Baumann