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“I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].”

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Daniel Clowes is an influential American cartoonist born on April 14, 1961. His work is known for its unique style and profound themes, with notable works including 'Eight Miles' and 'Crumb.' more

“One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."”

Years Looks Made Said Hands Beautiful House Built Window Woods Architecture Weekend Hobbies Aluminum Old Houses

Author:Daniel Clowes

“Every movie really does have a message. Somebody somewhere is trying to make a point or advance a cause or promote their agenda. There's nothing wrong with that. They try to do so in an entertaining fashion.”

Trying Doe Causes Fashion Messages Agendas Entertaining

Author:Max Lucado

“I don't get the impression that most sources of media - like television and movies - are trying to get out a positive message, necessarily. My impression is they're trying to get a message out that promotes their personal opinion, position or belief and they're trying to do something that makes money. They want to turn a buck.”

Want Trying Turns Belief Opinion Media Position Television Source Messages Impression Making Money Bucks Personal Opinions Positive Messages

Author:Max Lucado

“The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.”

Wonder Fashion Messages Vote Entertaining Free Market Packages Footsteps

Author:Max Lucado

“My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any other medium. I feel like the reader accepts all of these styles, and after a certain point you can flip the pages and see a character rendered very differently than you saw on an earlier page, and it's not jarring. It suggests things that you can't suggest just in the writing or in the plotting.”

Feels Writing Character Feelings Certain Can Do Accepting Saws Style Reader Pages Mediums Flip

Author:Daniel Clowes

“I think if you had different artists approaching the material in different styles, that's very different. I think it's an interesting thing to discover, what's present in the work even when you're shifting the styles. I've just found it a much stronger way to work.”

Ifs Thinking Way Different Artist Found Interesting Style Materials Stronger Shifting Interesting Things Different Styles

Author:Daniel Clowes

“It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that inspires you the most. I think the thing that bogs down a lot of artists is that you're kind of stuck drawing in a style you've developed.”

Thinking Way Feels Kind Artist Style Inspire Like You Approach Pages Drawing Stuck Liberating Bogs

Author:Daniel Clowes

“I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.”

Way Book Past Felt Drawing Rhythm Sameness

Author:Daniel Clowes

“There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.”

People Whole Bunch Shops Online Shopping Pressured

Author:Jeff Bezos

“None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.”

People Thinking Firsts Littles Different Turns

Author:Beau Bridges

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