How many quotes did Scott McCloud wrote?

The author Scott McCloud wrote around 11 of quotes.

44 Scott McCloud Quotes on Comics, Artists and Comics

Q: What is the best Scott McCloud quote?

"Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction." - Scott McCloud

Q: What are some Scott McCloud quotes?

"...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself." "If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time." "By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't." - Scott McCloud

Q: What are some short Scott McCloud quotes?

"I'm back, boys and girls! back from the pink padded couch palace!" "Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments." "To be a "thing" that thinks and moves and wants...that's MIRACULOUS." - Scott McCloud

All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.

I wouldn’t necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I’d really felt I knew how to make comics.

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that’s been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.

It wasn’t until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you’ll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they’ll kick your ass every time.

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

We all live in a state of profound isolation. No other human being can ever know what it’s like to be you from the inside. And no amount of reaching out to others can ever make them feel exactly what you feel. All media of communication are a by-product of our sad inability to communicate directly from mind to mind.

I don’t think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

If a comic comes out on the scene and it’s really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand – rendering the term ‘mainstream’ a hollow joke – while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

To be a “thing” that thinks and moves and wants... that’s MIRACULOUS.

My first influences were superhero artists.

There’s a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I’d sort of like to get on to the future.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that’s fairly familiar territory to me.

The panel acts as a sort of general indicator that time or space is being divided. The durations of that time and the dimensions of that space are defined more by contents of the panel than by the panel itself.

I’ve always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

When you’re free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.

Amplification through simplification.

Think of your face as a mask. That’s what it is, after all. A mask. Facing outward. Worn from the day you were born. Slave to your every mental command. Seen by everyone you meet. But never by you. Open its eyes now. Just think it. The mask will obey.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

In comics at its best, words and pictures are like partners in a dancer and each one takes turns leading.

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

Space does for comics what time does for film!

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

A medium is a bridge between two minds.

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply ‘give the customers what they want’ is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn’t get – and they left.

My dad was an inventor, and I think I’ve always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

Comics offers tremendous resources to all writers and artists:faithfulness, control, a chance to be heard far and wide without fear of compromise...it offers range and versatility with all the potential imagery of film and painting plus the intimacy of the written word. And all that's needed is the desire to be heard--the will to learn--and the ability to see.

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So this is it. This is the Great Escape. Is it wrong for us to want this? I keep thinking, if there are so many worlds, who decided which one to put us on? No one asked us what we wanted. Don't we have the right to look for something more?We'll be back; we know we can't stay away forever. But just for a while...just for a while.

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The natural world creates great beauty every day, yet the only rules of composition it follows are those of function and chance.

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To be a "thing" that thinks and moves and wants...that's MIRACULOUS.

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Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments.

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I'm back, boys and girls! back from the pink padded couch palace!

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I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style.

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By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.

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If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.

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...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself.

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Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

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