41 Quotes by David Rees

I have very limited craftsmanship. And a lot of the stuff I make plays on that.

The time that I would spend revisiting my old Get Your War On strips is more profitably spent Googling myself and reading comments about how people hate my pencil-sharpening business.

I’ve been really surprised about a lot of the negative comments about artisanal pencil sharpening. Like, it really rubs some people the wrong way.

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

I would make a comic for Rolling Stone every two weeks, because they’re biweekly. And then I would make weekly comics for my weekly papers. It was on two parallel tracks. And then they all got collected in a book.

I don’t want to be one of these people who’s like, “Man, I don’t know where my ideas come from and I don’t know why this works.”

People think, “Wow, people in America have so much money, they’re sending hundreds of pencils to this guy.” I don’t think those people realize that most people who are buying these pencils are buying them as art objects or conversation pieces.

Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it and it’s done.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.