Mark Alan Stamaty Quotes

You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll? No. I wanted a guitar, but my mother didn't really want me to have one. At some point I played a violin, but I didn't last long at that.

Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?

I like to follow my own muse.