72 Quotes by Scott McCloud

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself.

All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.

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.

Ask any writer or filmmaker or painter just how much of a given project truly represents what he/she envisioned it to be. You'll hear twenty percent...ten...five...few will claim more than thirty.The master of one's medium is the degree to which that percentage can be increased, the degree to which the artist's ideas survive the journey -- or, for some artists, the degree to which the inevitable detours are made useful by the artist.

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

We track it and that's our new peak, ... We hadn't had anything close to (the previous mark) in the last five years." ()

Hollywood has a love affair with heroes' stories right now. It depends on people being motivated to make the movies, because first and foremost they have to make a good movie." ()