Art Quote by Lights

It's a constant struggle in the comic community to be considered a book and to be considered art, but it's just as time-consuming as…

— Lights

When I started in the comic book business, 'Art Of' books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da Vinci. But…

— Jim Starlin

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

— Joe Simon

There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long…

— Jonathan Hickman

That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the…

— Adrian Tomine

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

— Scott McCloud

Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form, or material.…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

The extraordinary thing about comic books and graphic novels is that they cannot exist without the art. If my words disappeared tomorrow, well, whatever.…

— Marjorie M. Liu

Comics are a gateway into literature.

— Francoise Mouly

Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the…

— Stan Lee

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic…

— John Ridley

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the…

— Denise Mina