Quotes by Jim Woodring

Jim Woodring

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.

Exit

Mind

Understanding

A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.

Mystery

Nature

Tree

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

Alternatives

Book

Hands

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.

Art

Symphony

Writing

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

Creator

Use

Worthwhile

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were – neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn’t happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

Dull

Reality

Vision

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.

Jobs

Thinking

Waking Life

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.

Glowing

Time

Writing

I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don’t mean I couldn’t write as well as they do, which of course I couldn’t; they’re great writers, and I’m no writer at all. But I couldn’t even write badly about normal, neurotic people. I don’t know that world from the inside. That’s just not my orientation.

Mean

People

Writing

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.

Giving

Inspiration

Real

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Alternatives

America

Art

Artist

Beautiful

Bigs

Body

Book

Brother

Cartoon

Character

Childhood

Cobras

Crazy

Creator

Credit

Definitions

Drawing

Dream

Dull

Everyday

Exit

Fans

Feelings

Firsts

Fun

Giving

Glowing

Hands

Hero

Important

Inspiration

Jobs

Kids

Letting Go

Mean

Memories

Might

Mind

Mystery

Nature

Nice

Normal

Order

Pantomime

People

Powerful

Real

Reality

Seeing

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Quotes by Jim Woodring

Jim Woodring

A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.

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

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.

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were – neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn’t happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

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.

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.

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