I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures -… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
A comic is a way of literally experiencing someone else's vision with a purity that I don't think any other medium offers;… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I don't think that people are necessarily going to films simply because they were adapted from comics, though I could be wrong.… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
As I get older I find myself thinking about stories more and more before I work so that by the time I… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Drawing the kind of comics that I do takes so long that to specifically address something as transitory as a political matter… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The "essence" of comics is fundamentally the weird process of reading pictures, not just looking at them. I see the black outlines… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such constant "ups,"… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“The whole experience reminded me of my own 'old lady' phase that I went through in high school while I was reading Somerset Maugham...… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
There's a rhythm to the words combined with the pictures [in a comic]. Whenever I'm working on a comic strip I re-read it, probably… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford to be.… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
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