89 Quotes by Chris Ware

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.