Jean Giraud Quotes

• An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.

  Jean Giraud

  Artist, Mind

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• We artists can only go so far as the people can follow us. We are not alone, we are part of the system. We can take risks, but if you want to go to the peak of your consciousness, you may very well find yourself alone. Even if you know how to translate what you see, maybe only ten people will be able to understand what you tell. But, if you have faith in your vision, and retell it again and again, you will start noticing that, after a time, more people will begin to catch up with you.

  Jean Giraud

  Artist, People, Risk

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• The comics were not only stories to enjoy for me they were drawings that possessed me.

  Jean Giraud

  Drawing, Stories, Enjoy

  "Moebius on his art, fading eyesight and legend: ‘I am like a unicorn’". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 2, 2011.

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• Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality.

  Jean Giraud

  Dimensions, Twisted, Results

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• A legend - now I am like a unicorn.

  Jean Giraud

  Legends, Unicorn

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• When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for failure and learn. It's not about struggle with our limitations or with public or the publishers. It's more about treating it like in aikido; the strength of the attack is used to defeat him with the same effort.

  Jean Giraud

  Struggle, Editors, Rejection

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• The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.

  Jean Giraud

  Computer, Very Good, I Can

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• I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.

  Jean Giraud

  Stories, Magazines, Firsts

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