Jim Woodring Quotes - Page 2

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• To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.

  Jim Woodring

  Beautiful, Brother, Powerful

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

  Jim Woodring

  Reality, Vision, Dull

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• One of the best memories of my life is contemplating that first finished drawing and realizing I had cracked the code, that I could make drawings like this whenever I wanted.

  Jim Woodring

  Memories, Drawing, Firsts

  Intervie with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• I think that cartoons have a lot more power than they're given credit for.

  Jim Woodring

  Thinking, Cartoon, Credit

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I'm not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do.

  Jim Woodring

  Book, Writing, Significant Things

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works of genius like this, which are giving vast inspiration to humanity. But I guess I shouldn't even say that. It's ridiculous to say that. You are what you are. My stature suits me.

  Jim Woodring

  Real, Inspiration, Giving

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But creating a monumental work of architecture, or writing a great symphony, is something else. It's a higher order of creation.

  Jim Woodring

  Art, Writing, Symphony

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge.

  Jim Woodring

  Understanding, Mind, Exit

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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