"I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush."

-- Todd McFarlane

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“To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.”
“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”
“The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed. In the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory. And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush.”
“Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.”
“There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.”
“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! â€” it seems to say, â€” there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”
“Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.”

Source : "Nelson Mandela Was Released From Prison After 27 Years. These 10 Political Prisoners Are Still Waiting" By Dominique Mosbergen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2013.
“Some days, I'm as shallow as a baking pan, but I still stretch miles in all directions.”

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