J.F.Johns Quotes

I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.

I don't care how people read their comics, I want them to read comics. I don't care if they read them on an iPad or a phone or in store, I just want them to read comics.

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

A great many of us have confused change with progress.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.

I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers.

Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group theyre rather stupid.

The acoustics seem to get louder

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

There was very little art in my childhood.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

I am not strong on perfection.

I don't know if sitting home everyday is normal, but that's what I do.

Think what you want, this is what we are.

People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.

I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

I'll always remember 1995 as the year i found out Star Trek wasn't real

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.

There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.

Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.