"To get the essence of life you have to draw from life itself, you can't just copy it...If you copy it you get a monster with no beauty, no life to it."

"But this is full of life?"

"Exactly, sometimes he looks kind of sad, too.
If you're going to make creatures, you got to make them to show people their own humanity, their own reality.

That's the responsibility of an artist, to show people ...themselves."

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Quote is not mine, but it stood out as something I heard long ago, and found recently again. And is true, both then, and now.

Doodled good 'ol  BoneXylophone talking to the Ultra Gorgon.