Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.
I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were
You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.
No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
Design is a response to social change.
The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.
As I get older I find myself thinking about stories more and more before I work so that by the time I eventually sit down to write them, I know more or less how it's going to look, start or feel. Once I do actually set pencil to paper, though, everything changes and I end up erasing, redrawing and rewriting more than I keep. Once a picture is on the page I think of about ten things that never would have occurred to me otherwise. Then when I think of the strip at other odd times during the day, it's a completely different thing than it was before I started.
I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.
The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.