Quotes by Jim Woodring - Page 1

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Nature
Tree
Incomprehensible
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A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Nature
Mystery
Tree
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It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Drawing
Pantomime
Stories
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Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Creator
Use
Worthwhile
Creators
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People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
People
Seeing
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I think that cartoons have a lot more power than they're given credit for.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Cartoon
Credit
Thinking
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Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Bigs
Fans
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Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Alternatives
Book
Comic
Comic Book
Hands
Rely
Alternative
Cartoonists
Readers
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Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Hidden Things
Express
Hidden
Same Thing
Tries
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I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Frank
Falls
Hammer
Phrase
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Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Giving
Wonder
World
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I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Real
Trying
Writing
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Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Cartoonists
Freelance
Hard Time
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One of the best memories of my life is contemplating that first finished drawing and realizing I had cracked the code, that I could make drawings like this whenever I wanted.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Drawing
Firsts
Memories
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The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Everyday
Normal
Writing
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Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Jobs
Mundane
Thinking
Waking
Waking Life
Life Me Doing
Breaking
Breaking Up
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Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Time
Glowing
Writing
Time Me See
Check
Every Time
Glow
Stays
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It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Interviews
Funny Work Great
Jim
People Say
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If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Important
Might
World
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I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Cartoon
Definitions
Drawing
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I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Time
Frank
Fun
Hitchcock
Ready
Want
By The Time
Same Thing
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That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Architecture
Drawing
Homage
Paid
People
Special
Me People See
Everywhere
Affects
Course
Drawings
Times
So Many People
Special Place
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I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Artist
Hero
Order
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When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Kids
Chaotic
Childhood
Feelings
Hung
Perception
Badly
Disoriented
Onto
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Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But creating a monumental work of architecture, or writing a great symphony, is something else. It's a higher order of creation.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Art
Symphony
Writing
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Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Dream
Cobras
Hood
Imaginary
Patterns
Real
Reverie
Shapes
Symbols
Fish
Charged
Lizard
Marks
Meaning
Observe
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When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
America
Character
Comic
Frank
Idiom
Ties
Specific
Tie
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Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Dull
Reality
Vision
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The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I'm not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Book
Significant Things
Writing
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I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Abnormal
Crazy
Freak
Order
Thinking
Unfamiliar
Life Keep My Life
Anybody Else
Life Crazy My Life
Cultivate
Interests
Sacrificed
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I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works of genius like this, which are giving vast inspiration to humanity. But I guess I shouldn't even say that. It's ridiculous to say that. You are what you are. My stature suits me.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Giving
Inspiration
Real
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In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to whatever point you're at. I worried a little bit about people being able to keep the shape of the story in their heads while they were reading it, and not wonder how they got wherever they were.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Convoluted
Long Story
Wonder
Worried
Heads
Led
Perhaps
Shape
Wherever
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I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works, and the term 'graphic novel' has sort of become the codified term now.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Chunks
Comic
Graphic
Publish
Term
Variety
Long People Doing
More And More
Short Stories
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People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Art
Fun
Letting Go
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A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Exit
Mind
Understanding
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I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't mean I couldn't write as well as they do, which of course I couldn't; they're great writers, and I'm no writer at all. But I couldn't even write badly about normal, neurotic people. I don't know that world from the inside. That's just not my orientation.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Mean
People
Writing
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When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think is good, if I can become an obscure cult artist, that's all I want. Well, I attained that. I'm an obscure cult artist, and I think now, Why didn't I say I want to be another Picasso or something? What other options were open to me? But I was convinced I couldn't achieve great things because I don't have a steady-state mind.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Artist
People
Thinking
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I never experienced anything in my natural state that was as shocking as salvia divinorum`s effects. The condensed extract is murder. I'd smoked some plain leaf and experienced a very alien, very physical sensation, like wheels grinding against each other all over my body. Odd, not pleasant, but not overwhelming. Someone sent me some extract, and I took a big lungful, started counting, and before I reached twenty I was suddenly and without preamble in a completely altered state.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Body
Twenties
Wheels
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I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Art
Fun
Nice
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To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.
Jim Woodring / Cartoonist
Beautiful
Brother
Powerful
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