“A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.” PeopleThinkingLooksBookDifferentJobsArtistCoursesCareersPagesRapperGood JobEmulatePacsBiggie Author:Ja Rule
“I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.” WritingEndsJoyArtistReadingBehindsScenePagesPaintDelightSentencesParadoxBehind The ScenesPalette Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint.” FeelsTryingLooksLastsArtistAsksWalksComfortablePagesPaintShouldersStaringManuscripts Author:Robert Genn
“My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.” ArtistTurnsResponsibilityPagesPianoMicrophones Author:Nick Cave
“I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.” DifferentEnoughArtistEasyHistoryStylePaintingSeriousPeriodsPagesTrainingAddHistoricalContributionMaking History Author:Liu Dan
“Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me--I swear--"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved.” WellsLittlesStoriesHandsBigsAmericaArtistCoursesLinesWrittenYouthParticularOfficeSixPagesWesternSavedViolentSmokeCodeComing OutSwearBulletsBarrelsTrajectoryPuffHorizontalShooterHand HoldingHorizontal Lines Author:Stan Lee
“Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.” FirstsArtistFoundTypeMetsPagesDelightIntenseFlashCollectingCollectorsFlash Gordon Author:Joe Shuster
“As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.” WantImportantArtistDesignScenePagesDrawsImportant ThingsLaysSpreadI Want YouSilhouettesPivotal Author:Jim Lee
“Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the artist have set up. If you go in there knowing what's going to happen, it's like reading the last page of the book. It's just cowardly.” PeopleIfsWantBookHappensLastsArtistReadingKnowingDirectorsPagesTensionCowardlySpoilers Author:Simon Pegg
“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.” ThinkingWayFeelsKindArtistStyleInspireLike YouApproachPagesDrawingStuckLiberatingBogs Author:Daniel Clowes
“Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.” ArtRealityArtistChoicesLiteratureSocialWealthDealsConditionsTalentPositionPagesOrdinaryPsychologicalRealismExceptionalImaginativeFreedom Of Choice Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.” ArtIdeasSoulMotherArtistSoundWhiteSilenceStudyMysteryColorBearsLetting GoPagesBirdEmptySticksCriticsLibraryPhilosopherObsessedSignificanceJournalCagesMasterpieceAmbientColor WhiteStudying ArtWhite Birds Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you square between the eyeballs and you know that's the artist for the story.” KnowsBookStoriesArtistPagesComicSquaresComic BookNever QuitEyeballs Author:William Katt
“Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!)” ArtistToo MuchImagineAdventureMonthsPagesSuperhero Author:John Byrne
“One of the things that kept most comics from being monthly was that very few artists could produce 24 pages per month. Jack Kirby was very much the exception to the rule, but his towering presence at Marvel started to dictate the whole shape of the industry - and that's where problems set in!” WholeProblemArtistProduceMonthsIndustryShapesPagesExceptionException To The Rule Author:John Byrne
“Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art.” ArtHandsArtistPiecesPagesGrassNew LifeGorgeousTransformingIllustrationLeaves Of GrassBreathtakingCenterpieces Author:Maria Popova
“As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train schedule, to the punch-clock. And I need to read a lot to make my pages happen.” NeedsLongSometimesHappensArtistJourneyPagesLong TimeDiscoveryTrainClockSchedules Author:Junot Diaz
“It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."” PeopleWantNeedsGivingPersonsAbleArtistDifficultEnvironmentIndustryNormalPagesBoxesOddsNeed YouConfined Author:Mos Def
“A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position and promote the worst of them to the front page. The sidewalk to crime becomes the marketing campaign. These artists have seen it work and sell millions and millions of records for other artists.” Has BeensArtistCoursesCan DoAttentionMillionsRecordsWorstMediaFrontsCrimePositionPagesGainsSellsMarketingCampaignsSidewalkMarketing Campaigns Author:Chuck D
“I'm so used to artists saying to me, "Listen, I'm going to have five pages done next week," and then three weeks later I'm phoning them, begging them for two pages. And Stuart [Immonen]is a guy who will promise you five pages and deliver six pages, and the six pages are even better than you could have ever imagined.” TwoDoneUsedArtistGuyThreeNextFiveWeekPromiseSixPagesBeggingBetter Than YouNext Week Author:Mark Millar
“It was really cool to get to know her as a person and artist. And getting to act with her after a year of knowing her and be like, "Oh my god! There's a whole 'nother thing here!" It was really cool to be her friend and then see Ellen Page on the set.” KnowsYearsPersonsWholeArtistKnowingPagesReally Cool Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“If an artist has the possibility to contact an infinitely larger public through the pages of a publication, he should try to invest more rather than less and go as far in his effort to communicate his inner image as he can.” IfsShouldTryingArtistEffortPossibilityPagesCommunicateContactPublication Author:Domenico Gnoli
“My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have your own personal vision that you will put on the page or the canvas or the screen, no matter what people say, but it requires a radical sensitivity. You have to be completely open to what the world is telling you, to what your audience tells you. And balancing those two things is nearly impossible.” PeopleWorldTwoMatterEnoughArtistStrongChallengesVisionAudienceImpossibleBalancePagesNo Matter WhatScreensRadicalTwo ThingsCanvasSensitivityStrong EnoughPersonal Vision Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Artists are often having very similar conversations across the various disciplines through which they choose to excel, but you rarely see them exist in the same pages or spaces.” ArtistSpaceDisciplineConversationPagesVarious Author:Michael Salu
“Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.” WritingArtistFunNovelPagesGraphicGraphic Novels Author:Anthony Bourdain