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No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.
— Chris Ware
Tags: bad, think, painting, art

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As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.
— Chris Ware
Tags: world, future, time, learning
I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.
— Chris Ware
Tags: something, mouth, way, look
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
Tags: way, think, medical, respect
The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.
— Chris Ware
Tags: looking, window, look, mind
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
— Chris Ware
Tags: who, empathy, me, life
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