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A love of nature is a consolation against failure. Berthe Morisot

Love Nature Failure Consolation Against

My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste. Betty Parsons

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920. Betty Parsons

Painting Since Been Working Sculpture

I've been using a computer for quite some time, and I don't understand everything. Betty Parsons

Time Everything Some Computer Understand Been Quite Quite Some Time Using

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation. Bill Plympton

Adult Animation Ideas Terms Accepting America Behind Japan Europe

Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist. Bill Plympton

I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow. Bill Plympton

I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action. Bill Plympton

Me Action Live Think Films Valid Market Dreamworks Cartoons Someone Adult Disappointing Like Know Because Audience Does Quentin Tarantino Tarantino Pixar Successful Who Live Action Film Basically

If I'm really feeling good and not having a lot of interruptions, I can do a minute of animation a day, so theoretically, I could do a film in three months without any interruptions. Bill Plympton

Good Day Three Feeling Months Minute Having Could Animation Feeling Good Without Lot Any Really Theoretically Film Interruptions

I like to get up at six in the morning, and I draw until sometimes ten at night. Bill Plympton

Morning Sometimes Draw Ten Like Until Up Get Six Night

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across. Bill Sienkiewicz

Me Almost Coming Irrelevant Across Technique

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach. Bill Sienkiewicz

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic. Bill Sienkiewicz

Service You Draw Magic Effects Story Really Special Special Effects

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. Bill Sienkiewicz

Truth Me Exaggeration Honorable Cartooning Something Through Envelope Pushing Thing

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something. Bill Sienkiewicz

You Nothing Something Driven Committee Just Produce Really Media Actually

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident. Bill Sienkiewicz

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it. Bill Sienkiewicz

You Unreality Deal Than Going Establish Certain Certain Level Level

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special. Bill Sienkiewicz

Me Inspire Somebody Feels Really Special

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar. Bill Sienkiewicz

Enough Books Top Kind Given Were Sellers Radar Lucky

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants. Bill Sienkiewicz

Took Constrained Feel Want

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra. Bill Sienkiewicz

New Because Doing Covers Lot Version Elektra

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