Artists who don't paint aren't artists.
It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.
I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.
I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.
The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will
Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say
Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different
To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story
Cartooning is an honorable thing
It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.
True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.
I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.
The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.
