“I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.” IfsWantEndsArtistDifficultCan DoMistakeSolutionsDifficultyTricksAcademicDead Ends Author:Isamu Noguchi
“That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.” PeopleTryingBookBigsArtistStuffBreakIndependentStartingTricksComicComic BookBreak OutSpeculators Author:Todd McFarlane
“Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.” IfsWayMindDifferentStoriesArtistEgoSakeTricksDifferent WaysIllustrationIllustrators Author:Maurice Sendak
“What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.” ShouldTryingWholeArtistSidesCarDrivingTricksBagsCivilizedZeroNothingnessNihilismExtremistPrecipicePromotersExhibitionist Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work