Quotes by Daniel Clowes

“I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. Its kind of a fine line.”

“You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesnt really have. A photograph, even if its connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.”

“When you see somebody whos got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and theyre constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.”

“Theres a lot of great cartoonists working, but I dont see too many people coming along who are of the where have you been all my life? variety.”

“Comic characters have to have some kind of life breathed into them, and Im never exactly sure how thats done, but you can tell when it works and when it doesnt. Theres nothing worse than looking at a comic when somebody doesnt have that. Its like looking at store windows or something.”

“I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldnt read the words, so I made up my own stories.”

“Believe it or not, the characters are all like people I went to art school with in the 70s.”

“I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.”

“I dont think anything to do with who publishes the work matters at all, as long as theyre not compromising to get published.”

“Its embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. Its still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.”

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... thats why youll never hear any reggae on the radio!

Maybe Im just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob.

Why arent you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?

Cmon, lets go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!

Dear Josh, we stopped by to fuck you but you didnt answer the door. Therefore you are gay. Sincerely, Tiffany and Amber.

- ...before I was going to college, my secret plan was to one day not tell anybody and just get on some bus to some random city and just move there and become this totally different person. - Then what? - ...and not come back until I had totally become this person... I used to think about it all the time... - I dont get it... - Thats because you dont uterlly loathe yourself

He always accuses me of trying to lookcool, I was like, everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.

When I was, like thirteen I thought it would be really cool to be a prostitute... I Thought It was like handsome guys would take you out on these romantic dates and you´d fuck them and then they´d pay you...