Daniel Clowes Quotes - Page 2

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• Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still the '60s, in that there's still kind of a playfulness and inventiveness in terms of design and the things that were going on in the culture. The second half, it got much more commodified. It's possibly the ugliest era of architecture and clothes and design in the entire 20th century, from 1975 to '81 or '82.

  Daniel Clowes

  Clothes, Design, Culture

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.

  Daniel Clowes

  Art, Thinking, Propaganda

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

  Daniel Clowes

  Imagine

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• I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

  Daniel Clowes

  Struggle, Fall, Drawing

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

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• I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Issues, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I try personally not to be nostalgic.

  Daniel Clowes

  Trying, Nostalgic

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• I originally just wanted to be an artist.

  Daniel Clowes

  Artist, Wanted

  "Modern Cartoonist Daniel Clowes Prefers Paper to iPad" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. May 24, 2012.

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• At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.

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  Stories, Able, Kind

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

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• I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

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  Kids, Kissing, Thinking

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• I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence and find some spiritual connection in the deeper reality of our mutual desire.

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  Dream, Spiritual, Believe

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• When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

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  Fall, Mean, Thinking

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• It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as "my" direction. I think, "Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new." There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.

  Daniel Clowes

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

  Daniel Clowes

  Television, Littles, Beats

  "Daniel Clowes: 'You've got to be obsessed" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!

  Daniel Clowes

  Laughing, Suffering, Trying

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• The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

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  Mean, Smoking, Guy

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• 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

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• In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

  Daniel Clowes

  Art, School, Art School

  "Dan Clowes Talks Confidential". Interview with Hilary Goldstein, www.ign.com. April 4, 2006.

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• Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Online, Reader

  "Modern Cartoonist Daniel Clowes Prefers Paper to iPad" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. May 24, 2012.

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• For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

  Daniel Clowes

  School, Kids, Rays

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Giving, Unity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

  Daniel Clowes

  Running, Able, Whim

  "Daniel Clowes Talks Confidential". Interview with Hilary Goldstein, www.ign.com. April 4, 2006.

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• I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

  Daniel Clowes

  People, Type, Polite

  "Daniel Clowes' 'Wilson' draws from darker side" by Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I never feel there's anything I can't do.

  Daniel Clowes

  Feels, I Can

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. January 03, 2008.

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• I don't read much of anything online.

  Daniel Clowes

  Online

  "Daniel Clowes Talks Confidential". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.

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• I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

  Daniel Clowes

  Interesting, Internet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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