Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.”
“...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself.”
“By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.”
“Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments.”
“I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style.”
“In comics at its best, words and pictures are like partners in a dancer and each one takes turns leading.”
“The natural world creates great beauty every day, yet the only rules of composition it follows are those of function and chance.”
“I guess the basic difference is that animation is sequential in time but in spatially juxtaposed as comics are. Each successive frame of a movie is projected on exactly the same space--the screen--while each frame of comics must occupy a different space. Space does for comics what time does for film!”
“Amplification through simplification.”
“All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.”
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