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Ellen Forney
Ellen Forney
"I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of."
Ellen Forney
Crazy
Think
Artist
Really
"I find that stability is good for my creativity."
Ellen Forney
Good
Creativity
Find
Stability
"I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders."
Ellen Forney
History
Mood
Through
Sense
"For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way."
Ellen Forney
Work
Art
Pain
Suffering
"I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium."
Ellen Forney
Find
Just
Respond
Exciting
"A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery."
Ellen Forney
Experience
You
Light
Mind
"The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand."
Ellen Forney
Myself
Way
Process
Trying
"The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand."
Ellen Forney
Trying
Way
Poet
"The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand."
Ellen Forney
Trying
Way
Poet
"I find that stability is good for my creativity."
Ellen Forney
Creativity
Stability
"I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders."
Ellen Forney
Artist
Lineage
Mood
"I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium."
Ellen Forney
Exciting
Mediums
"I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of."
Ellen Forney
Crazy
Artist
Thinking
"A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery."
Ellen Forney
Light
Mind
Batteries
"For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way."
Ellen Forney
Art
Pain
Thinking
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