Art Quote by Scott McCloud

“Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.”

— Frederik L. Schodt

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

— Kerry James Marshall

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction…

— Daniel Clowes

“He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his…

— Sherman Alexie

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

The "essence" of comics is fundamentally the weird process of reading pictures, not just looking at them. I see the black outlines of cartoons…

— Chris Ware

I've seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails.

— Chris Gethard

I loved comics for a long time, loved the medium, and I love where comics are going. It's on the forefront of social issues,…

— Lights

I kind of understood inherently - and I wasn't really conflicted about this - that comics were not for me or by people who…

— Noelle Stevenson

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes…

— John Lewis

A comic is a way of literally experiencing someone else's vision with a purity that I don't think any other medium offers; there are…

— Chris Ware

The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.

— Dylan Thomas