Art Quote by Scott McCloud Download Open image “By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.” — Scott McCloud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Essentials Simplify Stripping
“By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.” — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings. — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear. — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But it takes… — Usher Copy Share Image
Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Artistes never make their image. Image is made by the fans and the artiste's job is to fight that perception. — Badshah Copy Share Image
It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
“...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
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… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
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… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
