"I originally just wanted to be an artist." — Daniel Clowes

"I originally just wanted to be an artist."

— Daniel Clowes

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41 Quotes by Daniel Clowes

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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…
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…
But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the…
I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty.…
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph,…
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out…
I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but…
It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell…
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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