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Quote by Dave Coverly in Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons by Phil Witte & Rex Hesner

“The creative process doesn't begin with humor. It begins with subject matter.”

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“It was as if we'd only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was because when you've lived in Alaska, living in other places seems easier, less challenging, less threatening. Alaska had enlarged each of us. No one is ever the same after coming back from Alaska.”

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Book:Looking for Alaska

Source: Looking for Alaska

“[Sam Gross] had some very interesting words of wisdom, one of which was 'Just remember, any minute it can all turn to s***.' That is sort of my general mindset, that all sorts of different anvils can fall out of the sky at any time.”

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Author:Roz Chast in Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons by Phil Witte & Rex Hesner

“I saw that my drawings had to be of a simplicity that would match the idiocy I was seeking.”

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Author:Jack Ziegler in Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons by Phil Witte & Rex Hesner

“One of the greatest, most wonderful things about cartooning is that it's so much up to the person doing it and how they want to do it. There's no one way.”

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Author:Roz Chast in Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons by Phil Witte & Rex Hesner

“Art is legacy, it is solace. It soothes, consoles, arouses. It’s work. It’s what you do all day. It’s how you work things out, how you understand the world. It’s the opportunity to start over, to shed your skin, to take revenge, to fall in love. To be good. To live long.”

Book:The Blue Hour

Source: The Blue Hour

“On that night, too excited to sleep, infinite possibilities seemed to swirl above me. I stared up at the plaster ceiling as I had done as a child. It seemed to me that the vibrating patterns overhead were sliding into place. The mandala of my life.”

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Book:Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“The power of falsehood must be taken as far as a will to deceive, an artistic will which alone is capable of competing with the ascetic ideal and successfully opposing it. It is art which invents the lies that raise falsehood to this highest affirmative power, that turns the will to deceive into something which is affirmed in the power of falsehood. For the artist, appearance no longer means the negation of the real in this world but this kind of selection, correction, redoubling and affirmation. Then truth perhaps takes on a new sense.”

Book:Nietzsche and Philosophy

Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy

“He was in one of those moments of supreme self-contained enjoyment in which the artist sees nothing in the world except art and sees the world through art”

Book:The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Enjoy yourself too much rather than too little, and don’t take art or love too seriously.”

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Art is a wilful distortion of reality and deliberate manipulation of facts to express deeper truths and experiences about human heart and mind.”

Author:Mujahid Mughal