Jim Lee Quotes

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style mascot portrait called 'Johnny.' I made a poster for it and sent it around the world to corporate art departments.

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn't. I wouldn't be able to describe my style or even tell if I have one or not.

If you look at the character of Sadness, they really nailed my eyebrows.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you're trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none of my work is about me or my private life.

I don't think that photorealism is required to offer emotions. You can have very abstract characters and renderings offering the same type of emotions - look at Pixar movies: they're not photorealistic; they're stylised, and it doesn't prevent emotion from happening.

Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.

The 'Doom' thing is to be able to come at things with a different point of view. I decided the mask would just add to the mystique of the character as well as make Doom stand out. I though it'd be an easy way for people to see and differentiate between characters, sorta like when an actor gains weight for a role.

I always wanted to do animation.

I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.

Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to push things within a range. Some are rougher, some more expressionistic, some are slicker graphically and call for a prettier drawing style that I can do. Some have a more classical vibe, and some are in between.

More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.