Quotes About Evolution

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

When I look in the mirror, I see a work in progress.

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

I need to work on everything.

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them.

It's taken a hundred years or more for some of these places [inner cities] to evolve and they evolved many of them very badly, but we're going to work very hard on health and health care.

Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.