Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.
Interpretation
Creating comics for enjoyment leads to ultimate happiness.
This quote emphasizes the intrinsic joy that comes from engaging in creative activities, such as writing and drawing comics, solely for the pleasure they bring. It suggests that true happiness is found in pursuing passions without the constraints of external expectations or pressures.
In practice
During a speech at a comic convention, someone might say this quote to inspire aspiring artists.
It wasn't until I went to my first comic convention while I was in high school that I got to see actual comic book artists and original artwork in real life, up close. That was when I first realized that this is what I wanted to do for a living.
To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it's the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That's where I get to delve into the characters' minds and hearts. That's where they become living, breathing beings to me.
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where Forms and Styles and Knowledge dwell. I love flowers made of glass or gold, true Art's true gifts, their painted hues more beautiful than nature's, worked in nacre and enamel, with perfect leaves and branches.
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
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