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Artist	Milton Knight
Gender	Male
Status	General artist
City	Pasadena
Country	United-States
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Born in 1962 in Mineola, N.Y. Started drawing, painting, creating my own attempts at comic
books and animation at age two. Always enthused about drawing and creating characters, so much that it became a life force.
I've never formed a barrier between fine art and cartooning. The art of expression was always the most important one to me, and growing up, I treasured Chinese watercolors, Breugel, Charlie Brown and Terrytoons equally. My very young childhood was during the era of "pop art", when fine artists were freely inspired by comics and other popular culture; I remember being captivated by these works during trips to museums and galleries in New York.
Graduated from BOCES Cultural Arts Center (Syosset, N.Y.), then took a few college classes in art while beginning a freelance art and writing career. Left home at eighteen, ekeing out what some would call a semi-living at my crafts while enjoying a lovely semi-homeless existence on Manhattan's waterfront. Finally landed in a Brooklyn brownstone where I spent seven waterbuggy years.
Did everything I could, I wasn't particular. Wrote and drew comic books and comic strips for
magazines and small newspapers, illustrated, designed record covers, posters, candy and T-shirts, and exhibited paintings when I could. Spent the 1980's on the outskirts of the "radical art scene" of the East Village. A challenging time, if not always a happy one.
Labor on Ninja Turtles comics allowed me to get up a grubstake to come to the West Coast in
1991, lured by prospects of a more healthful existence. Lived through a riot and a few earthquakes while working in animation as a designer, animator, and breaking in as a director thanks to my good friend Felix the Cat.
To retain my sanity (HA), I work on a stream of independent projects, which include those of a
literary nature, and a ten-minute animated film, done solo and now in the ink and paint stage.
My interest in every type of art I make is not in recapturing or approximating reality, but in
creating new forms and abstractions and giving them their own unique life.

To believe in the unreal
To accept what it may do

To list my interests and inspirations is difficult. People have been startled by the range of art books on my shelf. Instead of zeroing in on a few favorites, I choose to ask myself what I think is boring, and then ask myself why, being determined to learn something from everything. Some people have complained that this is a fault. That this deters one from having a "style", that I try too many different approaches, and that my work is therefore overwhelming and confusing. I feel that the concept of "style" has been abused as of late, that too many artists put the search for a highly recognizable and highly limited vocabulary of hieroglyphics before content and heart. This tends to not only date one, but also make one highly imitatable, and therefore expendable.
Art springs first from an observation of life, then a philosophy from the heart and mind of the
artist. And it must be honest to be truly worthwhile.