Chris Ware Quotes

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• I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
• A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
• Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.
• Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.
• I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.
• My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses.
• My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.
• One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal…
• The real power of comics is writing as you draw.
• Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.
• As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we…
• 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 the…
• I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate…
• I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New…
• I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers…
• When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were…
• There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so…

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