J.F.Johns Quotes
Aquamen is unique in the sense that he does it without ego. He doesn't always have to be right. He's made a lot of mistakes, and he really takes those to heart.
I know a lot of people that still buy comics, go to the shop every week, I know people who read them on an iPad. My brother reads on an iPad every week, he downloads his comics every week.
I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.
My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.
I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.
Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.
Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.
I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.
It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.
I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.
I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.
Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it...
A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.
Don’t worry, Miss Brielle. To be honest, the ones with a little bit of crazy have always been my favorite.
Face it, friends. For this journey, roads are optional.
Zane sighed. Jovan and Mother were just the same. “Maybe later” meant no.
Nightmares and secrets. Ewan wished he knew what had happened to these girls before he found them.
With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua’s hands. “One of my favorites.
Zane was pretty sure that worries and bossing were related, like a pair of old aunties.
Oh. Sure. It makes perfect sense. Zane is a wolf because his father is an eagle.
They say that to live in the Wilds, you have to be half-wild yourself. Or at least very brave. And Zane is both.
Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet?
You know, I don’t think your brother dislikes you as much as you think. After all, he gave up a kingdom to stay with his family.
Every day, they gave him new reasons to smile, laugh, worry, and wonder.
Strength was not how fiercely one punched, but instead, how one would summon the courage to take a blow for someone else.
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
