Chris Ware Quotes

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

Age, Language, Ability

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.
Chris Ware

Respect, Medical, Nice

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

Through, Expect, Seen

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
Chris Ware

Life, Book, Real

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.
Chris Ware

Real, Read, Cartoons

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.
Chris Ware

Sense, Drawing, Computer

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

Said, Child, She

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

Mouth, Photos, Smug

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
Chris Ware

Life, Might, Turn

My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses.
Chris Ware

Head, Looks, Glasses

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.
Chris Ware

Mother, Artist, Wanting

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.
Chris Ware

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

Personal, Build, Pick

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.
Chris Ware

Power, Writing, Real

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

Human, Understand, Why

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.
Chris Ware

Books, Anybody, Afford

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

Work, Amazing, Done

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.
Chris Ware

Time, Future, Learning

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.
Chris Ware

Alone, Nothing, Wanted

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

Art, Free, Personal

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.
Chris Ware

Change, School, Trying

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.
Chris Ware

Great, Trying, Friends

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

Write, Story, Pictures

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

Mom, Wife, Friends

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.
Chris Ware

Movies, Idea, Times

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: December 28, 1967

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