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Will Eisner Quotes
«I've spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.»
Author: Will Eisner
«A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.»
Author: Will Eisner
«The work we do is as demanding as any of the great painters because nothing that happens on the page of a comic is accidental. It has to be imagined first in your mind before you do it. Those of us who know something about the art of painting know that working on a canvas, very often a lot of serendipitous things happen that work to the advantage of the painter ultimately.»
Author: Will Eisner
«I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of 'moving uptown,' becoming an illustrator or a gallery painter, or those others who said, 'I'm going to go uptown and be a writer, I'm going to work for The New Yorker one day and escape this ghetto.' For me, there was no escape.»
Author: Will Eisner
«In the beginning of the century, in 1900, the newspapers in this country began running comic strips, and they were called jokes or funnies. The word comics developed later, but it is that that began to give the name - the ambience of comics - the feeling of being a frivolous kind of art-form.»
Author: Will Eisner
«It's very important for me to maintain contact with the reader, because I'm writing to someone, and I'm desperately eager to achieve believability.»
Author: Will Eisner
«All professionals should teach at some time in their career because they are obliged to pass on what they have learned.»
Author: Will Eisner
«Memory is a very amorphous thing. It is selective and shaped by emotion . . . people are constantly in pursuit of the details of their past because it is from that they determine their own identity upon which they can base their strategy of survival.»
Author: Will Eisner
«The great depression left a mark on all of the civilized world. It was a defining moment like a giant earthquake that reminds us of how little control we have over human destiny -- despite our technology and innovation.»
Author: Will Eisner
«You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.»
Author: Will Eisner
