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I don't fetishize objects. Jessica Stockholder

Objects

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails. Jessica Stockholder

Skin Painting Plumbing Wiring Nails Houses Fiction Paint

Don't let anything but your talent affect your success. Jillian Mayer

Success Talent Affect Anything Your

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living. Jim Dine

You Living About Point Come Terms Accept Because Said Lot Very Done Just Little Them Really Working Keep Things

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny. Jim Dine

Funny Think Able Obsession Intensity Stop Being

I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami in their lifetimes. I think it is on the same level as seeing the pyramids in Giza for many people. But, Miami is slippery: It is a place that is always that distant orgiastic green light while also being a hot, tropical, and very real place. Jim Drain

Travel People World Light Will Wish Think Distant Slippery Seeing Tropical Through Lifetimes Hot Pyramids Most Also Always Least Real Miami Very Green Real Place Green Light Same Suspect Same Level Being Place While Many Level

I'm attracted to the things that people throw away - the shadow goods, in Jungian terms. Jim Drain

People Shadow Throw Goods Attracted Terms Away Things

The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs. Jim Drain

You Walk Difficult Think Bass Everything Eyeballs Would Would-Be Color Feel Like React Were Human Room Unified Next Body Your Speaker Standing Whole Thing

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world. Jim Drain

Work World Able Feel Over Like Always Exhibit Privilege Artist

I like to imagine that the Neanderthals were all really good artists. Jim Drain

Good Like Were Artists Really Good Artists Imagine

With music, there's a conversation happening. You're hearing what's going on right now, with people's emotional states, in a communal way, and listening to that is really - it's both informative and so generous. It's like emotional news. Jim Drain

With clothing and fashion, the language changes - the gloves come off, and we all can participate. Jim Drain

Fashion Language Changes Participate Come Gloves Off Clothing

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread. Jim Lee

Time You Looking Design Spend Draw Out Silhouette Small Scenes Lay Spread Very Artist Maybe Want Pivotal Them Page Less Less Time Even Larger Things

Outside of my work as a comic book creator and co-publisher, I'm an avid gamer. Jim Lee

Work Book Gamer Outside Comic Comic Book Avid Creator

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed. Jim Lee

Me Kid Drawing Something Never Felt Just Just Something Really Enjoyed

Back in the '30s, '40s and '50s, you had clear-cut heroes, clear-cut supervillains. Today, you have more of a blend, more of a gray area between the two. You have the rise of the sympathetic villain and the rise of the antihero. Jim Lee

Today You Heroes Back Rise More Area Had Between Blend Villain Gray Gray Area Two Sympathetic

Bob Harras' personal and creative integrity is respected and renowned throughout the comic book industry. As an editor, he provides invaluable insight into storytelling and character. Jim Lee

Character Creative Integrity Book Respected Insight Invaluable Throughout He Industry Renowned Comic Comic Book Editor Provides Personal Storytelling Bob

Prior to 'Action' and 'Justice League 1,' there was no label 'superhero' for a superpowered being. It's really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they've agreed to be our champions. Jim Lee

Justice People Superman Power Action Extraordinary Our Superhero Emergence Idea League Comfortable Prior Label Gets Being Public Us Really Who Agreed Amongst Champions

When a character has as wide an audience and as rich a history as Batman, it's truly exciting to see him introduced into an all-new storytelling medium. BATMAN LIVE will bring a completely new experience to fans of the character - it's great to be able to give them something they haven't seen before. Jim Lee

Great Character History Experience Fans Will Seen Before Rich Live Medium Batman Introduced See Able Give Something Exciting New Him Audience Truly Storytelling Them Wide Bring

'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future. Jim Lee

Future History Cornerstone Both Comics Publishing Watchmen

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