"I guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from, and it sort of makes sense and has a kind of profundity to it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't."

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David Shrigley

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“As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them, or finally those who do battle for us and how we should respond to it all. We will never discover who we are. We will fail to confront the capacity we all have for violence.”
“As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.”

Source : "Justice League artist Jim Lee". Interview with Web Behrens, www.timeout.com. September 7, 2011.
“Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?”
“If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.”
“Its a good feeling when people come up to you and tell you your music helps them, and as long as it does, I'll keep making it.”
“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.”
“What visual information does is it creates priorities. You cannot know with certainty what lies behind something else. There are very few transparent materials in the natural world or the built environment. And so we deal with things superficially, and we deal with what's in front of us, not what's behind our head that we can't see, or to the left or the right. Visualists are often linear and timeline-oriented, whereas the natural condition and the natural way of problem-solving throughout evolution is to be multitasking.”
“If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.”

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