Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Jean Giraud

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French artist Jean Giraud.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Jean Giraud

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseudonym Mœbius, as well as Gir outside the English-speaking world, used for the Blueberry series—his most successful creation in the non-English speaking parts of the world—and his Western-themed paintings. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others, he has been described as the most influential bande dessinée artist after Hergé.

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.
The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.
I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine. — © Jean Giraud
I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.
A legend - now I am like a unicorn.
Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality.
The comics were not only stories to enjoy for me they were drawings that possessed me.
When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for failure and learn. It's not about struggle with our limitations or with public or the publishers. It's more about treating it like in aikido; the strength of the attack is used to defeat him with the same effort.
We artists can only go so far as the people can follow us. We are not alone, we are part of the system. We can take risks, but if you want to go to the peak of your consciousness, you may very well find yourself alone. Even if you know how to translate what you see, maybe only ten people will be able to understand what you tell. But, if you have faith in your vision, and retell it again and again, you will start noticing that, after a time, more people will begin to catch up with you.
An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.
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