David Mazzucchelli famous quotes

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.
-- David Mazzucchelli

#Artist #Groups #Designer

I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.
-- David Mazzucchelli

#Eye #Years #Tears

The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.
-- David Mazzucchelli

#Essence #Shoes #Way

To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time. Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind. The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience. Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.
-- David Mazzucchelli

#Memories #Brain #Mind

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?
-- David Mazzucchelli

#Opposites

Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.
-- David Mazzucchelli

#Rest In Peace #Life Is #Death And Dying

Me? I like wearing a condom. It means I'm having sex. I already spend most of my time NOT wearing one. It's like a tuxedo - I enjoy putting one on for special occasions.
-- David Mazzucchelli

#Sex #Mean #Special

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...
-- David Mazzucchelli

#Father #Pay #Citizens

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities
-- David Mazzucchelli

#Lying #Two #Choices

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.

There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!