Scott Mccloud Quotes

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

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. ~ Scott McCloud

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

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. ~ Scott McCloud

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. ~ Scott McCloud

> First, move out of that big Manhattan loft and head upstate. You'll find a little place you can afford and start a new life. Maybe get a job teaching at a community college. Maybe meet a girl at Best Buy, start dating. She'll put up with your crazy habits. You'll put up with her musical tastes.

> I don't understand. What's going on here?

> Time will pass. You'll make it official. You'll settle down, get a starter house. Two boys. Yellow Lab. Minivan.

> That. . . That isn't me.

> Why not? It could be. You'll make art in the basement for yourself for a while. The boys'll get married. Have kids of their own. Maybe y'get divorced. Meet someone new. And yeah, you'll wonder what could have been. But less, as the years go by. "Just wasn't meant to be," you'll say. And there'll be good times along the way. Sweet memories. Until it starts to wind down. Until your body fails. Until you don't recognize the world around you. Until it's time to go.

> That. . . isn't me. It can't be.

> Why not? It's a decent life. Food, sex, running water, a roof. Not to mention love and family. Those aren't small things.

> But it's not enough.

> You kids, you're so spoiled! Y'know billions would kill for a life like that. So what if the art thing didn't work out? Is it really that important?

> It's all I have. ~ Scott McCloud

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

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe. ~ Scott McCloud

If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar. ~ Scott McCloud

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. ~ Scott McCloud

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

Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile. ~ Scott McCloud

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

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

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

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. ~ Scott McCloud

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. ~ Scott McCloud

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. ~ Scott McCloud

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

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. ~ Scott McCloud

Space does for comics what time does for film! ~ Scott McCloud

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

Form and content must never apologize for each other. ~ Scott McCloud

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. ~ Scott McCloud

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

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. ~ Scott McCloud

A medium is a bridge between two minds. ~ Scott McCloud

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. ~ Scott McCloud

My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way. ~ Scott Eastwood

Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. ~ Richard G. Scott

The artist, wrote Joseph Conrad, "speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives." That was the art that Scott Fitzgerald would find, reminding us that a mirage may be more marvelous in its way than an oasis in the desert. Gatsby's great error is his belief in the reality of the mirage; Fitzgerald's great gift was his belief in the mirage as a mirage. "Splendor," Fitzgerald came to understand, "was something in the heart. ~ Sarah Churchwell

I despised myself for my weakness. I may have dreamed all my youth of life as a horse-trader like my father; I may have railed against my conscription and loathed the legions on principle, but even so, every morning in this place I cursed my lack of valour and every night, when I slept, my traitorous
mind brought me dreams drenched in the blood of our enemies as my comrades in the Vth launched themselves into battle, taking risks, winning glory, rising in the ranks, killing the enemy and so becoming men ... all without my being there.
The fact that it was winter, when the weather forced a kind of peace on both sides, and that my comrades were currently enduring endless forced marches over the mountains in western Armenia because their general had deemed them unfit for battle, did nothing to hamper my fantasies. ~ M.C. Scott

You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

It's more important to do right than to be right. ~ Laura Scott

The word "happy" had started to sound wrong in Darcy's head, like a random collection of Scrabble letters. "What about ~ Scott Westerfeld

Scott was the brother I was in love with from the age of eleven, he's the nicest man in the world, but I met Elijah and fell in love with him. ~ Lucy Rinaldi

And for all concerned there was a deepening anger that under the cloak of defending the sacred tenet of "free trade," the United States continued to finance and do business with both sides in the conflict, growing ever richer while Europe bled. ~ Scott Anderson

I've read seventeen novels and bushels of poetry
really necessary novels like Vanity Fair and Richard Feverel and Alice in Wonderland. Also Emerson's Essays and Lockhart's Life of Scott and the first volume of Gibbon's Roman Empire and half of Benvenuto Cellini's Life
wasn't he entertaining? He used to saunter out and casually kill a man before breakfast. ~ Jean Webster

I don't particularly have a wide social circle. ~ Scott Rudin

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much. ~ Walter Scott

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead. ~ Willard Scott

Ransomware is more about manipulating vulnerabilities in human psychology than the adversary's technological sophistication ~ James Scott

I can ride the waves, and I know I'll be just fine. Because of me. I can count on myself, and that...that is a pretty fuckin' healthy place to be, don't you think? ~ Ginger Scott

The difference between honest and dishonest commerce is that when an honest man or woman of business ruins someone, they don't have the courtesy to cut their throat to finish the affair. ~ Scott Lynch

Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier."
"No greatness, then."
"Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day."
"Not in the history books," said Valentine.
"Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father. ~ Orson Scott Card

He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxord,' or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm yours," he says, his head falling against mine.
"Yeah?" I ask.
"Yeah," he says. "I'll be the reason you wake up smiling. That's hero enough for me. ~ Ginger Scott

Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does. ~ Elizabeth Scott

I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about. ~ Scott Stossel

I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do. ~ Rick Scott

Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it. ~ Sean William Scott

Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece. ~ Sheri Holman

We aren't much without you. I'm not much without you. ~ Ginger Scott

Do you have still the dye with which to turn your tunic red?'
'The madder? Yes, I do.'
'Enough of it for a century?'
'Enough for the entire cohort, if you want it.'
He twitched a smile then; I was coming to know it, and to revel in the sight of it. I was his then, part of the XIIth, and he knew it.
'Not the entire cohort yet, Demalion. The century will do. Henceforth we are the Bloody First. And I fancy we might have a mule's tail on our standard. See to it on our return. ~ M.C. Scott

What does it mean to be yourself?" he asked. "If it
means to do what you think you ought to do, then you're
doing that already. If it means to act like you're exempt
from society's influence, that's the worst advice in the
world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes.
The advice to 'be yourself' is obviously nonsense. But our
brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable
to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe
we have no idea how to behave. ~ Scott Adams

I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here ... until Jean shows up. ~ Scott Lynch

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along," she recited. ~ Emma Scott

Shout out to the noisemakers. Our world needs your voices.

Make noise for justice.
Make noise for inclusion.
Make noise for empathy.
Make noise for our planet.
Make noise for civil rights.
Make noise for women's rights.
Make noise for compassion.
Make noise for LOVE. ~ Scott Stabile

You might wince at the fact that I put economics ahead of your family, your friends, and the rest of the world, but there's a reason. If you don't get your personal financial engine working right, you place a burden on everyone from your family to the country. Once ~ Scott Adams

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom. ~ Scott Walker

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. ~ M. Scott Peck

The stitches in my forehead itched, loud noises made me jump, and I'd been wearing the same socks for three days in a row. Everyone ~ Scott Westerfeld

Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness - there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence. ~ Orson Scott Card

When you've got kids, it's a big undertaking. It's like doing four movies in a row. ~ Scott Raab