Scott McCloud Art Quotations

My first influences were superhero artists.

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

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.