American Quotes

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

I was hired as a penciler.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.

First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

My face is my career.

It's very hard to remain a student in life.