Will Eisner Quotes

#1. It was said Daredevil grew up in Hell's Kitchen, an amazing name for a neighbourhood. But that opened a Pandora's box of all the crime stuff I wanted to do. I borrowed liberally from Will Eisner's 'The Spirit' and turned 'Daredevil' into a crime comic.

Frank Miller

#2. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

Elliot W. Eisner

#3. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

Elliot W. Eisner

#4. [Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway. You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.

Will Eisner

#5. Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have ... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.

Thomas Eisner

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Walter Isaacson

#7. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

Elliot W. Eisner

#8. I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted - romantically and/or sexually - to people of more than one sex, and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.

Shiri Eisner

#9. A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

Michael Eisner

#10. As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

Will Eisner

#11. I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

Michael Eisner

#12. We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

Michael Eisner

#13. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

Elliot W. Eisner

#14. Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading.

Will Eisner

#15. I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

Michael Eisner

#16. The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch..

Elliot W. Eisner

#17. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

Elliot W. Eisner

#18. Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.

Michael Eisner

#19. A good journalistic organisation upholds four values: inform, reflect, crusade, connect.

Jane Eisner

#20. If you're really good, you should express yourself ... a lot.

Michael Eisner

#21. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

Elliot W. Eisner

#22. We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.

Michael Eisner

#23. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

Elliot W. Eisner

#24. Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.

Peter Bart

#25. If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure ... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure.

Elliot W. Eisner

#26. If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.

Michael Eisner

#27. The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.

Elliot W. Eisner

#28. The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

Elliot W. Eisner

#29. A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.

Michael Eisner

#30. I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.

Will Eisner

#31. Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

Michael Eisner

#32. Art is literacy of the heart.

Elliot Eisner

#33. To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

Michael Eisner

#34. My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

Michael Eisner

#35. We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

Will Eisner

#36. Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Michael Eisner

#37. Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.

Michael Eisner

#38. A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

Will Eisner

#39. User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.

Michael Eisner

#40. Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

Michael Eisner

#41. The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.

Michael Eisner

#42. Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

Will Eisner

#43. There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

Michael Eisner

#44. Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

Michael Eisner

#45. You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

Michael Eisner

#46. Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

Elliot W. Eisner

#47. We are not an isolated insulated community anymore

Jane Eisner

#48. Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

Kurt Eisner

#49. Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.

Thomas Eisner

#50. Wake up in the morning
I shall wake up and so shall you and I
Wake up, the sun is beautiful
And it is warming you and I
Fragile as we lie

Bruce Eisner

#51. I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

Michael Eisner

#52. We try to see patterns, to judge the events in our lives as rewards or punishment, parse things into good and evil. But there is a randomness to life that is beyond analysis...

William Eisner

#53. Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.

Michael Eisner

#54. Oh, let what I am keep on existing and ceasing to exist,
and let my obedience align itself with such iron
conditions
that the quaking of deaths and of births doesn't shake
the deep place I want to reserve for myself eternally.

Mark Eisner

#55. Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.

Michael Eisner

#56. Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Eisner

#57. I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.

Michael Eisner

#58. I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.

Michael Eisner

#59. I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

Will Eisner

#60. Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Will Eisner