"I’m chasing answers. I think the point to a story, or any creative endeavor really, is to work through your questions and try and reach some sort of conclusion. Even if it’s oblique, or fragmented, or confusing, I see the purpose of creative endeavor as a process of offering the world a point of view. Others can agree or not, or elaborate on your work, but in that sense, I don’t see that art is any different from science. We build our knowledge of the world by constantly offering possible answers, or visions of the world, and pass the baton on to the next generation."
-from an interview with David McKean
"...humor is important to me. I think it can cut to the heart of a subject in a way that sometimes a serious conversation can’t, so I tried to put these different points across in different ways, sometimes humorously, sometimes sarcastically, sometimes directly. I’m not interested in just telling another story, just to tell a story. It has to be about something that is important to me, and that I feel I’ve found an answer, an observation, a point of view, that maybe others haven’t. A naïve hope, I suppose, but I have to try."
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