Quote by Chris Ware Download Open image ““Every city began as a campsite”” — Chris Ware ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“The kids in the League knew about the camps-vaguely. There were only a few of us who had actually lived in one and experienced… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Again, it was proposed that we should go up the mountains and make our camps there.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The city, which should be the symbol and center of civilization, can also be made to function as a concentration camp. This is one… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously,… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“The city had been built by people from innumerable elsewheres. It was a chaos of cultures ordered only by its long streets. It belonged… — André Alexis Copy Share Image
“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models.… — Cristina Martin Copy Share Image
“What was it about this city, with its endless possibilities, that elicited such limited routines?” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“There is a certain kind of small town that grows like a boil on the ass of every Army base in the world.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Finally, it was the city that held us, the city they said had no center, that all of us had come to from all… — Carolyn See 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
