Love Quote by Eddie Campbell

There’s a sly kind of provocation in how casually Eddie Campbell collapses the mystique of “Art” into something you can knock out before lunch. “I just love doing the art” sounds almost willfully unglamorous, like he’s refusing the tortured-genius script audiences still want to pin on artists. Then comes the kicker: “it takes me a morning to do.” Not a season, not years of suffering, not an epic saga of inspiration and blockage. A morning. Coffee-to-noon territory.

The intent feels twofold: a genuine statement of pleasure in the act of making, and a quiet demolition of the idea that value must be proportional to visible struggle. Campbell’s phrasing doesn’t brag about speed so much as it insists on process. He’s pointing at craft: the decades of looking, drawing, revising, and failing that make “a morning” possible. The subtext is that ease is often earned, not accidental. When the public hears “quick,” it can translate to “cheap.” Campbell flips that assumption by anchoring the line in affection rather than efficiency: he loves doing it. The labor is real, but it’s integrated, not theatrical.

Context matters because comics and illustration sit in a cultural bind: widely consumed, often underpaid, frequently dismissed as less “serious” than gallery art. Campbell’s understatement reads like an artist defending a medium that demands relentless output while also being judged by romantic fine-art standards. He makes the real flex look simple: consistency, joy, and competence without the self-mythology.