Steranko Quotes & Sayings

I don't think people were put here to be happy. I think if you decide to be an artist or a writer, you automatically accept the responsibility of being alone. However, after your 50 or 60 years are up you'll be able to look back and see this output that you've done that will endure long after you're gone, and will continue to fill the minds of millions of people. — Jim Steranko

Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko. — Alan Moore

Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze. It maketh me to wake in green pastures: It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses. It restoreth my buzz. — Bob Phillips

I think you're used to being observed but not really ... seen. — Christina Baker Kline

I've met some real talents that were ... real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, to a certain extent Jim Steranko, who is an institution all to himself. What a talent. What a genius talent. — Mike Royer

We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a wrong notion of things. — Susan Glaspell

Every love story,every commercial trade, every secret, every matter in which trust is involved, is a gentle transaction of hostages. Everything is, to a degree, in the custody of every other thing. Blackmail, kidnapping, then, are among the extreme violations of the deal. Anyway, I seem to be about to have Jim's child; at least, I think I will, and the thing is I haven't mentioned it to Jim. — Renata Adler

Write visually or die! — Jim Steranko

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has. — Stephen Dunn

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured. — Howard Staunton

I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it. — Jim Steranko

Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores. — Jim Steranko

I regret that he didn't do anything about it, even though he was at least a head taller than me. I wouldn't have minded bleeding at all for one more opportunity to give the kind of Bat Lesson that Finger, Robinson, Sprang and others only dreamed of. — Jim Steranko

Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die. — Jim Steranko

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. — Steve Jobs

There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in my head. That's why I keep on trying. Maybe someday I'll do it. I don't want to be in the past. I want to get to the next thing. — Jim Steranko

Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent! — Jim Steranko

We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our time and effort exploring those forms and have an enormous investment in the arts. We're all part of the same brotherhood as far as I'm concerned. — Jim Steranko

Because sometimes in life, sweetheart. The bad guys win

-Ford 'Blame It on the Pain — Ashley Jade

At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made them artists or writers or law enforcers or attorneys, believe it or not. It's very humbling and gratifying. — Jim Steranko

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family. — Jim Steranko

Curiosity might have killed some cats,but not this one.
He's too tough.

Blacksad.
Intro by Steranko. — Jim Steranko

If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem. — Erik Naggum

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility. — Jim Steranko