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One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.
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Jim Lee

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I think when you're knee-deep in coming up with editorial plans, the desire to sit down and pencil something is pretty strong.
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Jim Lee

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I have to say, self-servingly, I downloaded my own comics. I downloaded 'Batman: Hush.'
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Jim Lee

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When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.
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Jim Lee

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People who liked the 'Arkham Asylum' video game can Google comics to download.
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Jim Lee

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One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.
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Jim Lee

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I think the very simplest way to show Superman's power is to have him punch someone that's powerful.
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Jim Lee

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Prior to 'Action' and 'Justice League 1,' there was no label 'superhero' for a superpowered being. It's really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they've agreed to be our champions.
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Jim Lee

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The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.
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Jim Lee

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Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a challenge to being one of the industry leaders in that everything you do is scrutinized and watched.
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Jim Lee

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At DC Comics, it has been a top priority that DC forges a meaningful, forward-looking digital strategy.
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Jim Lee

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People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I always felt a little on the outside. And as such, you're always observing things. So, I'd be kind of re-creating these things in my mind, and I think drawing it was a way to deal with that.
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Jim Lee

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When a character has as wide an audience and as rich a history as Batman, it's truly exciting to see him introduced into an all-new storytelling medium. BATMAN LIVE will bring a completely new experience to fans of the character - it's great to be able to give them something they haven't seen before.
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Jim Lee

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From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.
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Jim Lee

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Superheroes are modern mythological characters, so you're going to make them look impossible. Even my Krypto The Superdog is the idealisation of the canine form.
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Jim Lee

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A-list stars go to Comic-Con to woo the nerd demographic.
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Jim Lee

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Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.
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Jim Lee

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I don't think you can be a comic book fan and not hate change.
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Jim Lee

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When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.
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Jim Lee

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If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.
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Jim Lee

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I don't think you can measure your love or your passion for whatever you're working on.
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Jim Lee

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I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.
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Jim Lee

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I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.
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Jim Lee

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I think sometimes with new characters, you can kind of hit a creative valley, and it's important to recognize when you're in that valley so you can get back out and get back to that peak.
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Jim Lee

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More often than not, the fans really gravitate towards who's on the cover as opposed to how it's drawn or how it's composed, and so, a lot of the time, what an artist likes will be very different from what a fan likes.
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Jim Lee

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Superman tends to stand very upright, and he's very symmetrical, and those are actually the most difficult poses for me to draw.
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Jim Lee

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The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It didn't really hit me how important it was until I drew a scene early-on in the book that featured Superman crossing paths with a giant, intergalactic space armada.
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Jim Lee

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So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.
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Jim Lee

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There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of decisions. At the same time, there are some things you can do only as a penciler or creator. I want to keep my hands in both pots, so to speak.
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Jim Lee

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I'm a knockout artist.
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Jimi Manuwa

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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

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Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)
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Rollo May

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Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.
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Rollo May

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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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Rollo May

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... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.
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Rollo May

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It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation.
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Rollo May

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All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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Rollo May

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Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.
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Rollo May

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The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.
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Rollo May

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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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Rollo May

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I was artsy.
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KiKi Layne

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Artists work best alone. Work alone.
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Steve Wozniak

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As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
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Lynsey Addario

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I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I wanted to tell, the stories I felt were underreported, and I was convinced that that belief would keep me alive.
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Lynsey Addario

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Obviously I am a photographer and I believe in my medium: I do think that powerful photographs can force change. It doesn't take long to look and be engaged in a strong image whereas, with a story, you have to actually sit down and pause and be involved in it.
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Lynsey Addario

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You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.
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Lynsey Addario

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To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives, so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single one.
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Lynsey Addario

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One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired nonstop on 24-hour news channels. Days later, I am there, staring at tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis and feeling a 35-millimeter frame cannot capture the scope of devastation and heartbreak before me.
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Lynsey Addario

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