Top 98 Mccloud Quotes

#1. Space does for comics what time does for film!

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #9691
#2. I'm back, boys and girls! back from the pink padded couch palace!

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #18944
#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

Mccloud Quotes #20522
#4. The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #29637
#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

Mccloud Quotes #70140
#6. I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #85812
#7. Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #128034
#8. All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #128705
#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

Mccloud Quotes #129806
#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

Mccloud Quotes #151977
#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

Mccloud Quotes #276044
#12. It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #281397
#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

Mccloud Quotes #305920
#14. I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #308590
#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

Mccloud Quotes #335432
#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

Mccloud Quotes #340811
#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

Mccloud Quotes #347543
#18. Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #374167
#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

Mccloud Quotes #383589
#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

Mccloud Quotes #387689
#21. I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #388653
#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

Mccloud Quotes #392605
#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

Mccloud Quotes #393010
#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

Mccloud Quotes #452936
#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

Mccloud Quotes #455038
#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

Mccloud Quotes #470180
#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

Mccloud Quotes #472631
#28. A medium is a bridge between two minds.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #473106
#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

Mccloud Quotes #473625
#30. You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #478431
#31. I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #506190
#32. To be a "thing" that thinks and moves and wants ... that's MIRACULOUS.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #507881
#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

Mccloud Quotes #523552
#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

Mccloud Quotes #553946
#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

Mccloud Quotes #621065
#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

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#37. I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #639761
#38. Awesome is loud but awe is quiet.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #643503
#39. There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #663148
#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

Mccloud Quotes #665042
#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

Mccloud Quotes #669445
#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

Mccloud Quotes #706061
#43. One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #716010
#44. My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #745371
#45. By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #761022
#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

Mccloud Quotes #770961
#47. Form and content must never apologize for each other.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #795077
#48. Lack of vigilance will get you killed. A McCloud creed that he seemed to have internalized.

Shannon McKenna

Mccloud Quotes #803930
#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

Mccloud Quotes #804043
#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

Mccloud Quotes #805753
#51. My first influences were superhero artists.

Scott McCloud

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#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

Mccloud Quotes #855421
#53. Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #885367
#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

Mccloud Quotes #947381
#55. The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #969240
#56. I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #970904
#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

Mccloud Quotes #989580
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1060962
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1098145
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1121963
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1167575
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1199047
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1237265
#64. My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1259050
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1275680
#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

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#67. I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1375113
#68. Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1380089
#69. Tonight he was a firm adherent to the classic McCloud school of thought; plant bugs first, apologize later.

Shannon McKenna

Mccloud Quotes #1395001
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1397472
#71. I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1401126
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1444947
#73. Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1481185
#74. Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1488516
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1515663
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1537836
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1538701
#78. Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1540783
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1541336
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1612003
#81. To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1632430
#82. Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1653720
#83. Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

Kevin McCloud

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#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

Mccloud Quotes #1659146
#85. Jesus - (Hebrew) - Your perseverance and dedication will get you through a difficult period.

A.M. McCloud

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#86. The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.

Scott McCloud

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#87. I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1698807
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1718716
#89. The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1737687
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1750173
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1768612
#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

Mccloud Quotes #1782862
#93. It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

Scott McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1795747
#94. I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything.

Kevin McCloud

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#95. I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

Kevin McCloud

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#96. When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1832581
#97. Your home should be about enriching the daily experience.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1845306
#98. Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma.

Kevin McCloud

Mccloud Quotes #1873142

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