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Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write.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.

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don’t even care if these people exist.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

What’s the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I’m more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

In America the biggest is the best.

I take what I see work. I’m a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving...

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.

I’ll admit that it’s not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity – and never a clique.

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was...

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven’t really had to alter it very much ever since.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there’d be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions...

The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

And I’ve never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

You’re telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

Context begins with other artists – seniors and mentors.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do...

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

I didn’t want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career.