5 Quotes & Sayings By Jim Woodring

Jim Woodring is the son of one of the first generation college graduates to attend high school in Chico, California. Jim graduated from Chico State University in 1969 with a degree in history. He started his first business there, "Woodring's Laundromats." Jim has been employed as a manager of various forms of media for over 25 years. Today, he works as the owner/operator of Woodring's Media Group Read more

His current business interests include Woodring's Publishing, which publishes "The Chico Enterprise" and co-owns "The Pomo News."

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I don't trust my mind for everyday thinking, but I am convinced that it has one very great function, which is to eventually make me aware of astounding things. Jim Woodring
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Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. Jim Woodring
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A tree is an incomprehensible mystery. Jim Woodring
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That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. Jim Woodring