#us

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

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

— Chris Ware

#cartoons #drawings #intended #read #real

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

#austin #blood #change #could #delivering

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures. ↗

— Chris Ware

#i #i think #i write #illustrate #illustrator

I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be "seen through," or, even worse, instantly hated. ↗

— Chris Ware

#being #even #even worse #expect #front

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

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

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. ↗

— Chris Ware

#creation #discussion #fruits #hears #human

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. ↗

— Chris Ware

#billboards #everything #hate #i #laziness

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world. ↗

— Chris Ware

#books #could #dense #i #just