Scott McCloud Quotes

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• Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
• Space does for comics what time does for film!
• To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.
• All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.
• I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
• And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new…
• I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.
• It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
• It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.
• My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than…
• My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
• The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.
• Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.
• I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.
• Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.
• If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic…
• Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was…
• The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
• There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of…
• Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

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