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At the time that they were shown, the Brillo Boxes were underappreciated. It's only now, with the patina of history, that we can really see these masterpieces in a clear light. Mike Bidlo

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I do think there's a difference when you see a book where you can tell the creator's doing something they really love or are really passionate about as opposed to an artist or a writer who is just doing a particular job or trying to sell a product or trying to cash in on a popular trend. Mike Mignola

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My Hellboy is modeled on my father in some ways: a guy who's been in the Korean War, and he's traveled, and he's done a lot of stuff, and he's kind of got a been there, done that attitude. He's also been in the world. Del Toro's change was to have Hellboy bottled up in a room and mooning over the girl he can't have. Mike Mignola

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I'm thinking about color all the time. Sometimes even as far back as the plotting sequence. Mike Mignola

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My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper. Mike Mignola

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There's a ton of stuff in mythology and folklore that is loaded with wonderful creatures that I haven't drawn yet, but that's kind of my retirement plan. Theoretically, I won't be doing comics any longer, and I'll just be drawing and painting whatever the hell I want. Most of that will be monsters. Mike Mignola

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I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. Milton Avery

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Why talk when you can paint? Milton Avery

You Talk Paint Why

I love food, and I love drawing it, particularly. Mini Grey

Love Food Drawing Particularly

Biscuits are sweet things in Britain, and apparently in America a biscuit is something like a scone, something savory that you'd have with soup. Mini Grey

You Sweet Biscuits Something Like Soup America Apparently Things Britain

I always kind of think I don't have a style, just whatever seems to be appropriate for the story. Mini Grey

Style Whatever Think Appropriate Kind Seems Always Just Story

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time. Mini Grey

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I used to have two brown-coloured cats, who were brother and sister, called Bonzo and Bonzetta. Mini Grey

Cats Sister Brother Brother And Sister Were Used Who Two

We really didn't have any literature telling us it was a good thing to be a woman artist. When I was trained, there were no precedents, and that was something to get really angry about. Miriam Schapiro

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Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important. Miriam Schapiro

Women Men Important Sentiment Think Valid

Skin is not only an envelope protecting the inner body, or a membrane that allows exchange between exterior and interior of the body. It also serves as a mingling point between the outer world and inner self, and between body and soul. Miru Kim

People have different interpretations of my work, and I like that flexibility and openness. Miru Kim

Work People Like Openness Different Flexibility Interpretations

Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that. Molly Crabapple

Burlesque girls were alchemists. They were steel-tough performers who were willing to use kitchens as dressing rooms, haul their costume bags through the snow, and go into debt over fake diamonds, all for the five minutes onstage when they were goddesses. Molly Crabapple

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Sketching in general - anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world - is a profoundly disruptive act. Because you're creating something when you're kind of expected to consume or sit passively. I've always sketched things as a way to get into them, whether it was a fancy nightclub or, you know, to have kids think I was cool, whatever. Molly Crabapple

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The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf's looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I'd wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable. Molly Crabapple

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I've become increasingly agoraphobic. Molly Crabapple

Become Increasingly

Art is much more confined by materials than writing is. Molly Crabapple

Art Writing More Materials Than Confined Much

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