Jim Woodring Quotes

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• People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

  Jim Woodring

  People, Seeing

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• I never experienced anything in my natural state that was as shocking as salvia divinorum`s effects. The condensed extract is murder. I'd smoked some plain leaf and experienced a very alien, very physical sensation, like wheels grinding against each other all over my body. Odd, not pleasant, but not overwhelming. Someone sent me some extract, and I took a big lungful, started counting, and before I reached twenty I was suddenly and without preamble in a completely altered state.

  Jim Woodring

  Body, Wheels, Twenties

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

  Jim Woodring

  Dream, Real, Cobras

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think is good, if I can become an obscure cult artist, that's all I want. Well, I attained that. I'm an obscure cult artist, and I think now, Why didn't I say I want to be another Picasso or something? What other options were open to me? But I was convinced I couldn't achieve great things because I don't have a steady-state mind.

  Jim Woodring

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.

  Jim Woodring

  Kids, Childhood, Feelings

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• I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.

  Jim Woodring

  Art, Fun, Nice

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.

  Jim Woodring

  Crazy, Thinking, Order

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• I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.

  Jim Woodring

  Hero, Artist, Order

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

  Jim Woodring

  Drawing, Stories, Pantomime

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• I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.

  Jim Woodring

  Time, Fun, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

  Jim Woodring

  Book, Hands, Alternatives

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• I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.

  Jim Woodring

  Drawing, Cartoon, Definitions

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

  Jim Woodring

  Fans, Bigs

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.

  Jim Woodring

  Character, America, Ties

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

  Jim Woodring

  Jobs, Thinking, Waking Life

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.

  Jim Woodring

  Important, World, Might

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

  Jim Woodring

  Use, Worthwhile, Creator

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.

  Jim Woodring

  Nature, Tree, Mystery

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• Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.

  Jim Woodring

  Giving, World, Wonder

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• People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.

  Jim Woodring

  Letting Go, Art, Fun

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

  Jim Woodring

  Time, Writing, Glowing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

  Jim Woodring

  Drawing, People, Special

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge.

  Jim Woodring

  Understanding, Mind, Exit

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But creating a monumental work of architecture, or writing a great symphony, is something else. It's a higher order of creation.

  Jim Woodring

  Art, Writing, Symphony

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works of genius like this, which are giving vast inspiration to humanity. But I guess I shouldn't even say that. It's ridiculous to say that. You are what you are. My stature suits me.

  Jim Woodring

  Real, Inspiration, Giving

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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