Top 98 Mccloud Quotes
#2. I'm back, boys and girls! back from the pink padded couch palace!
Scott McCloud
#3. I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.
Kevin McCloud
#4. The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
Scott McCloud
#5. I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.
Kevin McCloud
#6. I spend a frightening amount of money on books.
Kevin McCloud
#7. Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.
Scott McCloud
#8. All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.
Scott McCloud
#9. Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
Kevin McCloud
#10. I don't know whether other asthma sufferers find this, but I've noticed that even when I've got my asthma under control, I often develop another problem such as an ear, chest or sinus infection and sometimes even joint pains.
Kevin McCloud
#11. The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.
Scott McCloud
#12. It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.
Scott McCloud
#13. Aaro's mouth tightened. "I knew it," he said. "I knew, as soon as I saw who was calling, that this would be another massive goat-fuck with international implications. It always is, with you McClouds."
"I'm not a McCloud. I share no genetic material with those freaks!
Shannon McKenna
#14. I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.
Kevin McCloud
#15. Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.
Kevin McCloud
#16. If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.
Scott McCloud
#17. There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.
Scott McCloud
#18. Life involves other people and it is a compromise.
Kevin McCloud
#19. I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.
Scott McCloud
#20. I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.
Kevin McCloud
#21. I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.
Kevin McCloud
#22. I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps.
Kevin McCloud
#23. Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool.
Kevin McCloud
#24. A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.
Kevin McCloud
#25. I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.
Scott McCloud
#26. I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style.
Scott McCloud
#27. People have got to get over the fear of not being able to trust others. I come across people who are very successful in their own sphere, and really believe they can do it all themselves, but they can't.
Kevin McCloud
#29. It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life ... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?
Kevin McCloud
#30. You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.
Kevin McCloud
#31. I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.
Kevin McCloud
#32. To be a "thing" that thinks and moves and wants ... that's MIRACULOUS.
Scott McCloud
#33. Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.
Kevin McCloud
#34. Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
Scott McCloud
#35. The natural world creates great beauty every day, yet the only rules of composition it follows are those of function and chance.
Scott McCloud
#36. What kind of tartan is this?" he said as he felt the fabric. "McCloud," Betty told him. "Welcome to the clan, son." Excellent, thought Lake. There would be no getting rid of her now.
Janet Elizabeth Henderson
#37. I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.
Kevin McCloud
#39. There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.
Kevin McCloud
#40. I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league.
Kevin McCloud
#41. Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.
Kevin McCloud
#42. My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
Scott McCloud
#43. One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.
Kevin McCloud
#44. My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.
Kevin McCloud
#45. By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.
Scott McCloud
#46. We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.
Kevin McCloud
#47. Form and content must never apologize for each other.
Scott McCloud
#48. Lack of vigilance will get you killed. A McCloud creed that he seemed to have internalized.
Shannon McKenna
#49. I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.
Kevin McCloud
#50. And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.
Scott McCloud
#52. I am a big fan of long drop, composting toilets - I like the cycle of using waste. When you have experienced one and seen what comes out of the bottom, it is amazing stuff. It's the most beautiful, driest, sweet-smelling compost.
Kevin McCloud
#53. Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments.
Scott McCloud
#54. I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing.
Kevin McCloud
#55. The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
Kevin McCloud
#56. I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
Scott McCloud
#57. My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
Scott McCloud
#58. If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar.
Scott McCloud
#59. When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.
Scott McCloud
#60. I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.'
Kevin McCloud
#61. I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.
Scott McCloud
#62. As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.
Kevin McCloud
#63. I'm terrified of being poor, I always have been. It's growing up as a Methodist. I'll spend that bit of extra money to get a better seat on a train sometimes, because it's quieter and calmer, but I refuse to spend money on clothes.
Kevin McCloud
#64. My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.
Kevin McCloud
#65. If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.
Kevin McCloud
#66. When you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself.
Scott McCloud
#67. I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.
Kevin McCloud
#68. Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.
Kevin McCloud
#69. Tonight he was a firm adherent to the classic McCloud school of thought; plant bugs first, apologize later.
Shannon McKenna
#70. I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.
Kevin McCloud
#71. I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.
Kevin McCloud
#72. The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.
Kevin McCloud
#73. Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.
Scott McCloud
#74. Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.
Kevin McCloud
#75. If I welcomed people into my lovely home every week in the pages of a magazine, they'd soon see how incredibly dull it is. It's important to maintain a bit of mystique.
Kevin McCloud
#76. You can pull the toy away from the cat's reach a few times but always make sure that you let it win eventually. This helps build confidence.
Ace McCloud
#77. If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.
Scott McCloud
#78. Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.
Scott McCloud
#79. 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
#80. What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that's healthy, I think.
Kevin McCloud
#81. To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.
Scott McCloud
#82. Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.
Kevin McCloud
#83. Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.
Kevin McCloud
#84. There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again.
Kevin McCloud
#85. Jesus - (Hebrew) - Your perseverance and dedication will get you through a difficult period.
A.M. McCloud
#86. The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.
Scott McCloud
#87. I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.
Kevin McCloud
#88. By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.
Scott McCloud
#89. The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
Kevin McCloud
#90. Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts.
Kevin McCloud
#91. A friend of mine once wrote a silly article about all these metrosexuals like David Beckham wearing sarongs, and she described me as a 'heteropolitan.' I don't know what that means. I think it was a joke.
Kevin McCloud
#92. As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.
Scott McCloud
#93. It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
Scott McCloud
#94. I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything.
Kevin McCloud
#95. I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.
Kevin McCloud
#96. When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.
Kevin McCloud
#97. Your home should be about enriching the daily experience.
Kevin McCloud
#98. Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma.
Kevin McCloud