Chris Ware Quotes

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• My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
• As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I…
• There is absolutely no single aspect of one's personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men…
• One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at…
• Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25
• Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.
• It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.
• I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of…
• Lately, I cant shake the feeling that Ive been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I cant account for most of…
• I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.
• The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of…
• Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern,…
• 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.
• During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change…
• I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I…
• Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places, and…
• The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.
• I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be "seen through," or,…
• No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad…
• Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is…

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