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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

Topics: Been First First Thing Get Image Like Look Looking Mind Out Same Six The First Thing Thing Up Window Years

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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

Topics: Afternoon Books Could Dense Just Kid Like Liked Lose Own Seemed Them Were Whole World You Yourself

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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

Topics: About Amount Art Art Forms Built Comics Emotion Forms Highly Jazz Lot Music Performed Respect Same Similar Way Whereas

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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

Topics: Aim Alive All My Friends Basically Cartoonists Closer Consider Definitely Ever Feels Friends Great Like Really Representation Same Same Thing Say Thing Trying Which Who I Can

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There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case.

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Topics: Based Case Comics Everybody How How Much Idea Kind Much Part Partly Peculiar Read Reality Seems Some Sure Think Wants I Think

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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

Topics: About Adult Almost Almost All Children Concepts Dismiss Engaging Entirely Ever Future Hardly Learn Learning Looking Our Our Time Past Slowly Spend Them Things Thinking Time Words World Worrying

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: December 28th, 1967

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