Mccloud Quotes & Sayings

A friend of mine once wrote a silly article about all these metrosexuals like David Beckham wearing sarongs, and she described me as a 'heteropolitan.' I don't know what that means. I think it was a joke. — Kevin McCloud

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future. — Scott McCloud

What kind of tartan is this?" he said as he felt the fabric. "McCloud," Betty told him. "Welcome to the clan, son." Excellent, thought Lake. There would be no getting rid of her now. — Janet Elizabeth Henderson

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet. — Kevin McCloud

I spend a frightening amount of money on books. — Kevin McCloud

Lack of vigilance will get you killed. A McCloud creed that he seemed to have internalized. — Shannon McKenna

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens. — Kevin McCloud

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger. — Kevin McCloud

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous. — Scott McCloud

Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool. — Kevin McCloud

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form. — Scott McCloud

What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that's healthy, I think. — Kevin McCloud

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year. — Scott McCloud

Space does for comics what time does for film! — Scott McCloud

To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths. — Scott McCloud

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form. — Scott McCloud

Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts. — Kevin McCloud

There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again. — Kevin McCloud

There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money. — Kevin McCloud

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. — Scott McCloud

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that. — Scott McCloud

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them. — Scott McCloud

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left. — Scott McCloud

I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history. — Scott McCloud

Awesome is loud but awe is quiet. — Kevin McCloud

If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar. — Scott McCloud

Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was writing about at the time - stories no one had any reason to think would succeed. My advice? Write what you want to read. You'll have more fun doing it - and if all else fails, you'll always have at least one loyal reader. — Scott McCloud

Tonight he was a firm adherent to the classic McCloud school of thought; plant bugs first, apologize later. — Shannon McKenna

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. — Scott McCloud

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung. — Kevin McCloud

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet. — Kevin McCloud

I don't know whether other asthma sufferers find this, but I've noticed that even when I've got my asthma under control, I often develop another problem such as an ear, chest or sinus infection and sometimes even joint pains. — Kevin McCloud

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life ... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered? — Kevin McCloud

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it. — Kevin McCloud

Until there was Piper McCloud.
The probability of a flier is so rare, so completely out of the ordinary, and it was the very thing that Conrad needed to make an escape plan work. The minute he saw that Piper could fly, he knew hope. He carefully plotted and prepared for every eventuality except one
Piper's refusal to leave without the other's.
How can she be so colosally stupid??!! Didn't she understand? — Victoria Forester

Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile. — Scott McCloud

A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone. — Kevin McCloud

People have got to get over the fear of not being able to trust others. I come across people who are very successful in their own sphere, and really believe they can do it all themselves, but they can't. — Kevin McCloud

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled. — Kevin McCloud

A medium is a bridge between two minds. — Scott McCloud

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass. — Kevin McCloud

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given. — Kevin McCloud

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. — Scott McCloud

I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style. — Scott McCloud

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes. — Kevin McCloud

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve. — Kevin McCloud

I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics. — Scott McCloud

I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture. — Kevin McCloud

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. — Kevin McCloud

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew. — Kevin McCloud

The natural world creates great beauty every day, yet the only rules of composition it follows are those of function and chance. — Scott McCloud

If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time. — Scott McCloud

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good. — Kevin McCloud

When you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself. — Scott McCloud

My first influences were superhero artists. — Scott McCloud

Jesus - (Hebrew) - Your perseverance and dedication will get you through a difficult period. — A.M. McCloud

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning. — Scott McCloud

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think. — Kevin McCloud

Aaro's mouth tightened. "I knew it," he said. "I knew, as soon as I saw who was calling, that this would be another massive goat-fuck with international implications. It always is, with you McClouds."
"I'm not a McCloud. I share no genetic material with those freaks! — Shannon McKenna

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political. — Kevin McCloud

I'm terrified of being poor, I always have been. It's growing up as a Methodist. I'll spend that bit of extra money to get a better seat on a train sometimes, because it's quieter and calmer, but I refuse to spend money on clothes. — Kevin McCloud

Life involves other people and it is a compromise. — Kevin McCloud

Comics offers tremendous resources to all writers and artists:faithfulness, control, a chance to be heard far and wide without fear of compromise ... it offers range and versatility with all the potential imagery of film and painting plus the intimacy of the written word. And all that's needed is the desire to be heard
the will to learn
and the ability to see. — Scott McCloud

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. — Scott McCloud

I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league. — Kevin McCloud

I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything. — Kevin McCloud

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe. — Scott McCloud

I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it. — Kevin McCloud

Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma. — Kevin McCloud

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell. — Scott McCloud

To be a "thing" that thinks and moves and wants ... that's MIRACULOUS. — Scott McCloud

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again. — Scott McCloud

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn't grow out of either of our species' two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. — Scott McCloud

You can pull the toy away from the cat's reach a few times but always make sure that you let it win eventually. This helps build confidence. — Ace McCloud

You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence. — Kevin McCloud

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. — Kevin McCloud

Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich. — Kevin McCloud

If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface. — Kevin McCloud

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick. — Kevin McCloud

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere. — Scott McCloud

Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty. — Kevin McCloud

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that. — Kevin McCloud

By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't. — Scott McCloud

Your home should be about enriching the daily experience. — Kevin McCloud

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud

I'm back, boys and girls! back from the pink padded couch palace! — Scott McCloud

I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me. — Kevin McCloud

I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch. — Kevin McCloud

I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.' — Kevin McCloud

Form and content must never apologize for each other. — Scott McCloud

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers. — Scott McCloud

If I welcomed people into my lovely home every week in the pages of a magazine, they'd soon see how incredibly dull it is. It's important to maintain a bit of mystique. — Kevin McCloud

Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments. — Scott McCloud

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long. — Kevin McCloud

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family. — Kevin McCloud

So this is it. This is the Great Escape.
Is it wrong for us to want this? I keep thinking, if there are so many worlds, who decided which one to put us on? No one asked us what we wanted. Don't we have the right to look for something more?
We'll be back; we know we can't stay away forever.
But just for a while ... just for a while. — Scott McCloud

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. — Scott McCloud

I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing. — Kevin McCloud

I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps. — Kevin McCloud

Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good. — Kevin McCloud