Quote of the Day

The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty, and boredom.  Those have always been where creative ideas come from.

-- Lynda Barry

Quote of the Day

...to be a teacher is to continue a certain kind of family line for people who don't have families.

-- Lynda Barry, "How Non-Artists Can Draw: Comics Great Lynda Barry on Teaching Creativity"

Quote of the Day

I don’t think there’s any other reason we have art than to save us, the way our liver is there to keep us alive. I have come to regard the arts as external organs. They have always been as critical to me as my kidneys are. It’s like a dialysis machine you draw yourself.

-- Lynda Barry, "How Non-Artists Can Draw: Comics Great Lynda Barry on Teaching Creativity"

Lynda Barry:

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

Lynda Barry:

The key to eternal happiness is low overhead and no debt.

Lynda Barry:

In the digital age, don't forget to use your digits!