89 Quotes by Chris Ware

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.

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

Every city began as a campsite – pg. 25.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.