Quote

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.

Chris Ware

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Chris Ware
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: December 28
Artist
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Novelist
Visual Artist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
F. C. Ware
F. Chris Ware
Franklin Christenson Ware
Realize
Ones
Realizing
Wife
Unrealistic
Imagine
Occasionally
Though
Somewhat
Friends
Prefer
Read
Mom

More quotes by Chris Ware

Image
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.
Chris Ware
Image
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.
Chris Ware
Image
Cartooning isn't really drawing, any more than talking is singing... The possible vocabulary of comics is by definition unlimited, the tactility of an experience told in pictures outside the boundaries of words, and the rhythm of how these drawings 'feel' when read is where the real art resides.
Chris Ware
Image
The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.
Chris Ware
Image
Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.
Chris Ware
Image
Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.
Chris Ware
Image
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.
Chris Ware
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
Image
As a cartoonist, my single goal is to create people with whom, for better or for worse - and regardless of how embarrassing it sounds - I can fall in love and somehow feel something deeply about, and through.
Chris Ware
Image
Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things.
Chris Ware
Image
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.
Chris Ware
Image
My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.
Chris Ware
Image
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
Image
Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.
Chris Ware
Image
I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can.
Chris Ware
Image
Comics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put yourself in that space. And when you're drawing something, all sorts of associations come up in my mind that I never would have thought of otherwise.
Chris Ware
Image
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.
Chris Ware
Image
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.
Chris Ware
Image
I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
Chris Ware
Image
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.
Chris Ware