Adequacy is sufficient.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.

I suppose I’m most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

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.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can’t do anything, but it really isn’t true.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

It’s interesting, because in the corporate stuff there’s a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be...

Well, I’d say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim’s, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a...

Loving once and only once is possible – anything is possible.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

Especially with Elektra, because I’m doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don’t want to work.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30’s, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right’ Sean’s doing his own thing.

I’m interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it’s the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can’t...

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it’s still a good buy.

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning’s work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about...

Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.

The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I’ve kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I’ve done it by living in the country within commuting...

When I turned 60, it didn’t bother me at all.

To have all your life’s work and to have them along the wall, it’s like walking in with no clothes on. It’s terrible.

Kyle Baker’s work is really funny, but it’s also got a very clear vision.

Well, let’s say we acknowledged the School of French Painting – the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time – condemned to painting for life.

Being alone is very difficult.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

The will to label will always prevail over what’s being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is...

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.

There’s always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

Because of this the representation I’m interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.

My life was pretty rough.

I’m not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don’t really want it to carry one. I’m not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or...

This is the ultimate con game – I’m having fun and people pay me to do it.

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it’s still about respecting the story.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It’s the first impression and will either open the door or close...

Usually I throw away what I don’t get right the first time.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing – then a work of art may happen.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For...

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let’s knock them while they’re alive.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.