Art Quote by Chris Ware

Most comics are not truly rebellious or creatively free. Most comics, paintings, music, etc., are derivative of other, more successful works. And it's quite…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

A comic is a way of literally experiencing someone else's vision with a purity that I don't think any other medium offers; there are…

— Chris Ware

When I started in the comic book business, 'Art Of' books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da Vinci. But…

— Jim Starlin

I've seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails.

— Chris Gethard

To me the important thing for a comic to be is emotionally honest.

— Jim Norton

Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we…

— Ilka Chase

Comics are just mirrors. People can either laugh at the reflection or be disgusted by it.

— Jermaine Fowler

Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is…

— Ted Naifeh

It's a mystery to me why comics have been so despised for so long. Obviously, it has to do with the history of the…

— Jessica Abel

The artists catch what's in the air. It's not because the artist "felt like it" or is a guru who channels the truth of…

— Francoise Mouly

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

— John Updike

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.

— Grant Morrison