Top 37 Quotes by Daniel Clowes

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.