Chris Ware Quotes - Page 3

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• 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, Texas

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• 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

  Mean, Solitude, Nostalgia

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• It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.

  Chris Ware

  Unique, Comforting, Suffering

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• I arrived at my way of "working" as a way of visually approximating what I feel the tone of fiction to be in prose versus the tone one might use to write biography; I would never do a biographical story using the deliberately synthetic way of cartooning I use to write fiction. I try to use the rules of typography to govern the way that I "draw," which keeps me at a sensible distance from the story as well as being a visual analog to the way we remember and conceptualize the world.

  Chris Ware

  Distance, Writing, Trying

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.

  Chris Ware

  Honesty, Real, Thinking

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• Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25

  Chris Ware

  Cities

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

  Chris Ware

  Believe, Done, Wells

  "Q&A: Comix Stars Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware and Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez". Interview with Sean T. Collins, www.rollingstone.com. September 26, 2012.

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• I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such constant "ups," which is a repugnant attitude any way one chooses to look at it. I definitely believe in the possibility of happiness, though; it's just something that I think, rightfully, is rare in its genuine form, and that it can't be counterfeited.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Attitude, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Chris Ware

  Grandmother, Empathy, Might

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford to be. It's really an uncomfortable situation, since I'm not an illustrator, though I do get calls from morally indefensible businesses offering me money to decorate their ambitions. It's extremely rare, almost unheard of, in fact, that I am asked to do a comic strip. Do writers get calls to pen Toyota advertisements? Do composers get asked to write chamber pieces about exercise machines?

  Chris Ware

  Writing, Ambition, Exercise

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's a rhythm to the words combined with the pictures [in a comic]. Whenever I'm working on a comic strip I re-read it, probably hundreds of times through to pay attention to how all of those things work. Sometimes even changing the angle of a character's eyebrow can really, seriously alter the effect and overall interpretation of a scene. And the insertion of a pause or a cough or a sniff, and all these things that we do in conversation, can bring it to life in a strange way.

  Chris Ware

  Character, Eyebrows, Attention

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• Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things.

  Chris Ware

  Memories, Focus, Littles

  Source: content.time.com

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• I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.

  Chris Ware

  Uplifting, Depressing, Disappointment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel, like younger writers, that they have to have something to "say" before they set pen to paper. Many cartoonists feel even more passionate about this idea than I do, vehemently insisting that comics are inherently "non-art" and poop humor or whatever it is they think it is, but that attitude is a little like insisting that all modern writing should always take the form of The Canterbury Tales.

  Chris Ware

  Attitude, Writing, Thinking

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• I don't think that people are necessarily going to films simply because they were adapted from comics, though I could be wrong. Comics aren't really misunderstood either, they've just been mostly silly for the past century, and those genre-centered stories have found their way into the movie theaters over the past couple of decades because a generation who grew up reading them has, well, grown up.

  Chris Ware

  Couple, Silly, Reading

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• There's something very strange and wrong-seeming about drawing realistic eyeballs in comics, at least in the mode of comics where action is carried more by the movement of the characters rather than where narration links disparately framed selected images.

  Chris Ware

  Character, Action, Strange

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Drawing the kind of comics that I do takes so long that to specifically address something as transitory as a political matter in it would be about as effective as composing a symphony with hopes that it would depose a despot. On top of that, I personally don't think that my version of art is the best way to deal with political issues at all, or, more specifically, the place to make a point. Not that art can't, but it's the rare art that still creates something lasting if its main aim was purely to change a particular unfair social structure.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Thinking, Long

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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