Scott McCloud Quotes

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.

Scott McCloud

• Art
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• Activity
• Instincts
• Reproduction

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• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Culture
  • Action
  • Celebrity

• It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Time
  • Me
  • Taken

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Help

• I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Space

• Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Father
  • Government
  • Gun

• I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Interesting
  • Most
  • Parts

• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.

  

  Taliesin

• So I walk like I'm on a mission cuz that's the way I groove.I got more and more to do, I got less and less to prove.It took me too long to realize that I don't take good picturesCuz I have the kind of beauty that moves.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Good
  • Long

• Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

  

  Bo Burnham
  • Laughter

• My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Character

• I would be remiss not to take advantage of this platform that I have, because I don't want any other woman or girl feeling like the way that I felt: that I didn't belong, that I would never succeed in the medium that I'm choosing to pursue because my hair isn't straight or my skin isn't light or my eyes aren't bright.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Girl
  • Feeling
  • Light

• Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Technology

• Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.

  

  Aristotle
  • Education
  • Care
  • Interest

• A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

  

  Neil Jackson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Art

• The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Life
  • Career

• Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.

  

  Lynne Truss
  • Comedy
  • Sorry

• 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.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Art
  • Survival
  • Activity