Quotes About Art

When writing for the page, the focus is on the design - how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative art of our time. Each series is like a 19th-century Russian novel: you need to do a lot of work in the first few episodes, just as you do in the first 50-60 pages of those books.

It always amazes me that Japanese comics have, like, 200 pages. How do they do that? They're fat books; it's a whole different kind of comic that's very close to their films. So I'm drawing from that history and bringing it here - bringing it to Katana.

When I write, I see the pages in my head, not the words.

Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages and pages of articles about Abstract Expressionists, when we came along, we were just not taken seriously at all.

If you're a model, you're paid to be a muse.

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

Without blood and pain, there is no Slipknot.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

Monk's music is often defined as enigmatic, eccentric and humorous - as if it had little to do with the pain he may have endured to create his art. But I believe Monk routinely shared his history with his audience, no matter how unpalatable that history was, and it is for that very reason that his music connects with people around the globe.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.