30 Quotes by Emil Ferris

The hardest thing is in terms of the drawing, because, you know, I really have to work to keep my hand fluid, and I've done a lot of recovery, but it's not the same as it once was.

I never quite became the monster I wanted to be. I feel mostly monstrous as I more become myself. Because the more you become yourself, the more it disturbs other people.

When I say 'art healed me,' it really healed me!

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

There's the way that light shows in darkness, and it is extremely beautiful. And I think it essentializes the experience of being human, to see light in darkness.

Becoming a monster sometimes isn't a choice that you have. We're all that; we're all 'the other' in one way or another.

My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.

I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear... But there is a chance that something... will talk to me from the dark, so I have... to be prepared for that communication, which has happened.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.