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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
Daniel Clowes
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Daniel Clowes
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.
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I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.
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I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.
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It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as my direction. I think, Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new. There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.
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I lose faith in everything else, but rarely in my work. If I start to get bored, I change it to make it more interesting. I try not to take it too seriously, but I also try to never cheat or hurry things along.
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I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.
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I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.
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I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what their criteria are, and you may not agree with them, but you can glean from their opinion how you will feel about a film.
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