#ay

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#gift #god #say #seconds #thank

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#always #bottom #bottom line #learn #line

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other. ↗

— Chris Ware

#any #be nice #cartoonist #each #i

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. ↗

— Chris Ware

#alive #basically #cartoonists #closer #consider

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

— Chris Ware

#i #look #mouth #photos #preponderance

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

#feels #honesty #i #i think #most

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

— Chris Ware

#always #artist #encouraging #mother #wanting

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed. ↗

— Chris Ware

#amount #art #art forms #built #comes

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#dance music #good #into #mainstream #me

I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#feel #i #i feel #know #like