Jean Giraud famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality.
-- Jean Giraud

#Dimensions #Twisted #Results
The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.
-- Jean Giraud

#Drawing #Stories #Enjoy
When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for failure and learn. It's not about struggle with our limitations or with public or the publishers. It's more about treating it like in aikido; the strength of the attack is used to defeat him with the same effort.
-- Jean Giraud

#Struggle #Editors #Rejection
An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.
-- Jean Giraud

#Artist #Mind
We artists can only go so far as the people can follow us. We are not alone, we are part of the system. We can take risks, but if you want to go to the peak of your consciousness, you may very well find yourself alone. Even if you know how to translate what you see, maybe only ten people will be able to understand what you tell. But, if you have faith in your vision, and retell it again and again, you will start noticing that, after a time, more people will begin to catch up with you.
-- Jean Giraud

#Artist #People #Risk
A legend - now I am like a unicorn.
-- Jean Giraud

#Legends #Unicorn
I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.
-- Jean Giraud

#Stories #Magazines #Firsts
The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.
-- Jean Giraud

#Computer #Very Good

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.
God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.
I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values
Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.
It is the end result that counts.

Jean Giraud famous quotes

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