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  • Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

    Self   Long   Serious  
  • Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

    "Colm Tóibín, novelist - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2013.
  • Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

  • Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

  • Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

    Art   Mean   Hands  
  • Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle.

    Air   People   Larks  
    Kelly Corrigan (2014). “Glitter and Glue: A Memoir”, p.186, Ballantine Books
  • I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

    Children   Play   Desire  
    James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.21, Courier Dover Publications
  • To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1980). “Off Center: Essays”
  • I really wanted to do some serious work. I really wanted to be a part of dramatic films. I wanted to show this talent, whatever that means, that I could be a dramatic actress as well. But the truth is, a) I don't know if I can, and b) I love doing comedy, and I felt almost a little embarrassed that I succumbed to the pressure. Vanity is really what it is. I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.

    Grateful   Mean   Vanity  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. April 7, 2009.
  • Filmmaking and television series are team sports. Look for the best team for you. Plan, budget your time, money and spirit. You need all three to get serious work done. Never say no because something scares you. Never say yes because you're flattered. Stay open, but stay proud. It never gets easy. Get over that part. Get on with it.

    Sports   Team   Scare  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.

  • One thing I did not want to change, even if we got serious, work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis. We all had to come to work on the balls of our feet and go up the stairs two at a time.

    Two   Feet   Balls  
    Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.69, Penguin
  • The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world.

    "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.
  • Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

    Two   Purple   Giving  
    "Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry)". Poem by Horace (line 14), circa 18 BC.
  • Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

    George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.

  • The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

    Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.24, Melville House
  • Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.

    Sports   Archer   Men  
    Herodotus (2017). “The Histories of Herodotus”, p.133, Aegitas
  • I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

    Woe Is Me   Ideas   Goal  
    Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.webexhibits.org. July 1880.
  • The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death of serious theologizing, and I would add, equally of serious work in the philosophy of religion.

    Philosophy   Add   Genius  
  • All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

  • Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

    "Joyce Carol Oates Interviews Herself". www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.
  • Brenda [Carlin] went into therapy and I soon joined her. First we put the drugs behind us, then we began serious work on our relationship. And, in time, we got well together.She just drove through a hotel lobby. Now, that's bottoming out.

    Source: reprints.longform.org
  • The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

    Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge
  • My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.

    Father   Men   Thinking  
  • Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you.

  • My work is a game, a very serious game.

    Art   Work   Games  
  • That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

  • Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

  • I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction to what I see. I don't leave this apartment in the morning and say to myself 'Today I'm going to be funny and tomorrow I'm going to be sad.'

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