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Chris Ware Inspirational Quotes (34)

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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 typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not only the core of art, literature and music, but should also be at the core of society, from ethics to economics.
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The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.
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Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.
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Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.
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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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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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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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I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can.
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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 make it as clear as possible.
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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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There's something very strange and wrong-seeming about drawing realistic eyeballs in comics, at least in the mode of comics where action is carried more by the movement of the characters rather than where narration links disparately framed selected images.
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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 the story with the pictures.
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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 same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.
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Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.
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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 pantheon.
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I wouldn't classify television as cool, because to me anything that involves the reader's consciousness to drive and carry a story is an active medium, and anything that sort of just pours into the eyeballs and ears is the opposite.
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Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it that is unlike anything else. It literally is like music. You hear it in your mind as you read it.
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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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Real drawing is about specifics. It's about describing an object as accurately as possible. In a comic strip you have to draw a picture of the idea of the object. You have to draw the word that you are picturing, then you have to mix in specifics with it for it to work as a story. But you are still working with drawn words.
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I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?
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Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25
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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 cartoon.
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Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.
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My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.
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