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I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

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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'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.
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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 think a comic looks better in the magazine. The colors are designed to be on paper, not illuminated on screen. I don't like the aspect of people reading it for free. When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously. But I don't know. I'm sure 10 times more people are reading it online than in the actual paper.
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If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.
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I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
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I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.
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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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Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].
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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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I knew how to draw all of the different smokestacks on the old trains and all that stuff, and then I realized that if I can draw trains, which is the thing I was probably the least interested in in the world at the time, I can do anything and find a way into it that will be interesting.
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I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence and find some spiritual connection in the deeper reality of our mutual desire.
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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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That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.
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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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But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I think if you had different artists approaching the material in different styles, that's very different. I think it's an interesting thing to discover, what's present in the work even when you're shifting the styles. I've just found it a much stronger way to work.
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