Daniel Clowes Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  Daniel Clowes

  Photography, Giving, Pages

• I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

  Daniel Clowes

  Giving, Vision, Lines

• That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.

  Daniel Clowes

  Character, Years, People

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

• Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Pride, Giving

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. May 30, 2012.

• I just try to make comics for myself, try to give it some kind of unity throughout. That often involves tiny details. I'm never sure what's going to be obvious or what nobody will ever notice. I put stuff in my comics that I thought was blatantly obvious, and nobody noticed. And things that I think are buried in the background, everybody gets it. So I try to be consistently aware of every part of the frame.

  Daniel Clowes

  Thinking, Giving, Unity

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm usually the last to see my influence in other people's work. People give me stuff and say "Oh look, this guy's ripping you off," and I'm like "What do you mean?" Often I see the people that I've ripped off filtered into my own work. In other people's work, I can only see specific, tiny little instances of inflections stolen from another artist.

  Daniel Clowes

  Mean, Artist, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• All I can say on the Guilford story - and this comes more from my perspective as a father than an artist - is for parents and administrators to give so little value to the career of a public-school teacher - to allow him to be cast aside without exhausting every avenue to resolve the issue - is an obscenity worse than anything I've ever drawn in my comics.

  Daniel Clowes

  Teacher, Father, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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