Steranko Quotes

#1. I've met some real talents that were ... real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, to a certain extent Jim Steranko, who is an institution all to himself. What a talent. What a genius talent.

Mike Royer

#2. Curiosity might have killed some cats,but not this one.
He's too tough.

Blacksad.
Intro by Steranko.

Jim Steranko

#3. Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

Alan Moore

#4. You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

Julian Assange

#5. When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.

Shakira

#6. I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.

Jim Steranko

#7. Write visually or die!

Jim Steranko

#8. The tiny seed knew that in order to grow, it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, struggle to reach the light.

Sandra Kring

#9. I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

Jim Steranko

#10. At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made them artists or writers or law enforcers or attorneys, believe it or not. It's very humbling and gratifying.

Jim Steranko

#11. There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in my head. That's why I keep on trying. Maybe someday I'll do it. I don't want to be in the past. I want to get to the next thing.

Jim Steranko

#12. Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.

Jim Steranko

#13. Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.

Charles Duhigg

#14. Its hard for her. Every answer starts with the phrase I don't know. But most of the time she does know ...

David Levithan

#15. The only way for you to know that you can really make a change is by knowing the future.

Toba Beta

#16. Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.

Mason Cooley

#17. Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

Jim Steranko

#18. I regret that he didn't do anything about it, even though he was at least a head taller than me. I wouldn't have minded bleeding at all for one more opportunity to give the kind of Bat Lesson that Finger, Robinson, Sprang and others only dreamed of.

Jim Steranko

#19. I have said to you before that even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my son, and I have all the love for you as a son, and I do not want your image to change with me.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#20. Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores.

Jim Steranko

#21. The best way [to survive] the red carpet is by wearing Ugg boots. But unfortunately, I have not yet managed to persuade the people who style me at these times to let me do that.

Emma Thompson

#22. We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our time and effort exploring those forms and have an enormous investment in the arts. We're all part of the same brotherhood as far as I'm concerned.

Jim Steranko

#23. I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Clarence Thomas

#24. Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!

Jim Steranko

#25. I don't possess these thoughts I have
they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have
They obsess me.

Ashly Lorenzana

#26. I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.

Claudia Schiffer

#27. Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.

Michael Ondaatje