Top 20 Jim Woodring Quotes (2024 Update)

Jim Woodring Quote: “Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were – neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn’t happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.”

1. “Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were – neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn’t happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.”

2. “It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra’s hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.”

3. “Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra’s hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.”

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4. “That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I’ve paid homage to it many times in my drawings.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, “imaginative drawing.” Anything you’re drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.”

5. “I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, “imaginative drawing.” Anything you’re drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “I think that cartoons have a lot more power than they’re given credit for.”

6. “I think that cartoons have a lot more power than they’re given credit for.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “People aren’t interested in seeing themselves as they really are.”

7. “People aren’t interested in seeing themselves as they really are.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “I do sort of feel like I’m building my monument with what I do, but it’s pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works of genius which are giving vast inspiration to humanity. But I guess I shouldn’t even say that. It’s ridiculous to say that. You are what you are. My stature suits me.”

8. “I do sort of feel like I’m building my monument with what I do, but it’s pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works of genius which are giving vast inspiration to humanity. But I guess I shouldn’t even say that. It’s ridiculous to say that. You are what you are. My stature suits me.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.”

9. “If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But creating a monumental work of architecture, or writing a great symphony, is something else. It’s a higher order of creation.”

10. “Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But creating a monumental work of architecture, or writing a great symphony, is something else. It’s a higher order of creation.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.”

11. “Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “I’ve heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn’t even want to do it any more because he’d already had all of the fun of working it out. It’s the same thing with these Frank comics.”

12. “I’ve heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn’t even want to do it any more because he’d already had all of the fun of working it out. It’s the same thing with these Frank comics.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.”

13. “When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “The books that I do, the stories I write – I’m glad I’m able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I’m not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do.”

14. “The books that I do, the stories I write – I’m glad I’m able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I’m not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I’ve never thought his work was that great.”

15. “Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I’ve never thought his work was that great.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.”

16. “Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “Leslie Stein’s comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.”

17. “Leslie Stein’s comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners – Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry – people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.”

18. “I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners – Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry – people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don’t know about, and what I don’t know about is the everyday, normal world.”

19. “The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don’t know about, and what I don’t know about is the everyday, normal world.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there’s something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.”

20. “Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there’s something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “I’ve often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don’t know enough about the real world to write one.”

21. “I’ve often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don’t know enough about the real world to write one.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.”

22. “A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don’t like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don’t think so. Those stories don’t interest me that much as a general thing.”

23. “Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don’t like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don’t think so. Those stories don’t interest me that much as a general thing.”

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Jim Woodring Quote: “When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I’ve really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.”

24. “When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I’ve really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.”

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