Chris Ware Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.”