Alex Toth Professions : Cartoonist Born : June 25, 1928 Died : May 27, 2006 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Alex Toth I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out. Alex Toth careers half firsts Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left. Alex Toth comic-book hell essentials To add to truth distracts from it. Alex Toth add I look for people that are emitting a nice energy about them. Like, they're dancing to the house music or they have a robot puppet aura. But it's hard. People you think are going to be good end up getting really drunk and then who knows what's going to happen. Alex Toth nice people thinking Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that which ought to be clear and instantly understood, and ought to be simply-stated with economy! Alex Toth elements stories negative It was great fun, to learn anew. You think you know enough, but you don't. You must open up; let it in. be receptive, admit what you don't know, which few are willing to do. Start from square one. Again! Alex Toth squares fun thinking Similar Authors Al Capp cartoonist Bill Amend cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley cartoonist Art Spiegelman cartoonist Alison Bechdel cartoonist Alex Raymond cartoonist All Authors