Quotes about american-artist
american-artist amount bit massive
You have to want it overwhelmingly. You have to be an egomaniac. You have to have a little bit of talent. You have to have a massive amount of luck. Leonard Baskin
american-artist avenue couple days fifth internment jack job loft looked within
Within a couple of days I got a job with Jack Binder's agency. Jack Binder had a loft on Fifth Avenue and it just looked like an internment camp. Gil Kane
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To me, I always felt that Elektra was much more of a character that men would put their fantasies into. I felt there was a level of mystery to her. Bill Sienkiewicz
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There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.
american-artist certainly experience loved
Toasters was a really interesting experience for me because it did take a lot out of me. It was wonderful, certainly very liberating, and I loved it.
american-artist book love people response
The response to the characterizations in the book was immediate. People would say, We love these characters. How long have you been doing them?
american-artist bench front house lawrence lived tall tree weathered
There was a long weathered carpenter's bench under the tall tree in front of the little old house that Lawrence had lived in there.
american-artist looser maggie plan tom totally
The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga. Jaime Hernandez
american-artist apparently fired noise production three weeks worked
I started working in production and I worked there for three weeks but apparently they thought I was making too much noise and they fired me.
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We moved immediately to New York and then I was taken over to Paris and I learned to read French before I learned to read English. Beatrice Wood
american-artist dc guys hired publishers
The publishers were like syndicates. For instance, the guys that DC hired in 1936, those guys were still working there years later.
american-artist interest type
I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy. Robert Crumb
american-artist flower friend nobody sees small takes time
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
american-artist create open spoken trying viewers work
I'm always trying to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so that they feel open participation. Jeff Koons
american-artist came job next year
My first job came the next year at 16.
american-artist call cost figures gets gone
Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome. Don Bluth
american-artist bit both felt pain pleased results time trying
I was pleased with the results but every time I look at both of those pictures, I feel a little bit of the pain I felt in trying to put it together. Faith Ringgold
american-artist audience cheating comic fast guess since
I guess I feel like I'm cheating my audience if I don't give them what I feel is enough since the comic doesn't come out as fast as I'd like it to.
american-artist cartoons comic drawing editorial experience far school strips
I got my experience drawing for school newspapers. I was drawing editorial cartoons and comic strips as far back as I can remember. Mort Walker
american-artist fought graduated july june sent wars
I graduated in June 1943, and July 1, 1943, I was sent to the Pacific. I was 17. I was just a kid. Wars are not fought by old men, they're fought by kids.
american-artist cheaper hate models paint
I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. Georgia O'Keeffe
american-artist individual original style unique
I feel that my original style was much more unique and individual and was much more the real me. It had much more zing and schmaltz. Bob Kane
american-artist dealt episode feels fought hard parents
I fought hard to get this episode on because it dealt with adoption, and how someone feels when they find out who their real parents are. Joe Murray
american-artist began collapse dog lost wonder
By the end of the '50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.
american-artist awesome create helping influence might millions thinking
But you still have an awesome responsibility, because you are helping to create something which might influence the thinking of millions of people. Conrad Hall
american-artist enjoyed hard since stayed work
Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it. John Hench
american-artist mothers supposed
Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right' Sean's doing his own thing. Yoko Ono
american-artist among ground large light memory pillows sitting white
My first memory is of the brightness of light - light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground - very large white pillows.
american-artist beginning direction early maybe pirates sketches trying
Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.
american-artist art buy child dragged europe interested museums since
That ever since I've been a child I've been interested in art and been dragged through all the museums of Europe and had the sense to buy art books.
american-artist artist artists best educator future perform understand understanding unexpected
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
american-artist fooling start
That's the way I work. Usually I start by fooling with the stuff, make messes. Sometimes something comes out of it; sometimes it doesn't. Kenneth Noland
american-artist catch kinds physical throw
I wasn't athletic, I couldn't catch a ball, I couldn't throw a ball, I had all kinds of physical limitations as well. So this was it. Chuck D.