Chris Ware Quotes

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Chris Ware

Profession : Artist

Birth : December 28, 1967

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 some alien race.

Chris Ware

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 know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

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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 realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

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There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.

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The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

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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 Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.

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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, even worse, instantly hated.

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I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

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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 like their own whole world.

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I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

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Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

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I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

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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 - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.

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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 the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.

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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, comic books and magazines included.

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