"When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles o..."
"When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thought they were incredibly exotic. They also seemed to be a central part of a specifically 'Texan' identity, one distinct from being 'American.'"
"Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work."
"As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like."
"People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion."
"My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real."
"I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements."
"Nobody's made an impact like Raina Telgemeier or Kate Beaton. I think that indie creators, people making webcomics and graphic novels, are the ones to watch."
"Something we often struggle with on pictures is the right way to shoot live-action elements that are for an environment that's very complicated from a lighting standpoint. An example is a starship flying through an environment that's constantly changing."
"Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation."
"He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back."
"I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in."
"If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised."
"My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology."
"Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated."
"I have become an employee of art."
"I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things are in play all the time. I think it's what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist."
"I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across."
"In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival."
"What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige."
"Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art."
"I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to."
"Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography is, perhaps ironically, a challenge to curators, practitioners, and critics."
"I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea."
"The first time I shopped at a comic shop, it was because I had been published in a comic book. As I became more involved in comics, I started going more and more, usually to support my friends or lady-friendly comics."
"When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama."
