Narrative Art Quotes

I am a greedy artiste. Wherever I will find good stories, I will do it.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

Movies would be like a broad painted canvas... or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, 'What is electricity?' Along with the images that go on the screen, there's a corridor of dialogue that can happen through motion pictures, whether you're aware of it or not.

Literature is about telling stories.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People could do all sorts of things.

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.

Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller.

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

I just want to tell great stories.

I thought about trying to do a strip. I even tried to do it, but I felt I didn't have the voice. Even though I liked that form, I didn't think I thought in the form of the three panels.

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.