Quotes by Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson

A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.

Color

Order

Perfect

A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.

Avoiding

Hobbes

Slips

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

Drug

Missing

Rooms

All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.

Looks

Media

Thinking

Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium’s history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work of such sophistication, wit, and beauty that it increasingly seems to me that cartoon evolution is working backward. Comic strips are moving toward a primordial goo rather than away from it . . . Not only can comics be more than we’re getting today. but the comics already have been more than we’re getting today.

Cartoon

Done

Moving

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

People

Sports

Team

As far as I’m concerned, if something is so complicated that you can’t explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway.

Calvin And Hobbes Friendship

Complicated

Knowing

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Motivation

Play

School

Barney’s Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said “Eat your peas.” Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney’s Mom never found out where he’d gone, Cause Barney didn’t tell her. There his dad spent his life eating mice and gruel With every bite for fifty years he was sorry he’d been cruel

Dad

Mom

Sorry

Books are almost always better than the movies made from them, because there are things books do well and things movies do well, but usually those things don’t overlap: the same with comics and animation.

Animation

Book

Made

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Achievement

Acid

Action

Admire

Adulthood

Adventure

Agreement

Amusement

Animal

Animation

Apathy

Appreciate

Art

Artist

Asking

Assurance

Atmosphere

Attention

Avoiding

Bad Mood

Balance

Be Good

Beautiful

Beer

Believe

Bigs

Bird

Body

Book

Boys

Brain

Bugs

Built

Burden

Buying In

Calvin And Hobbes Friendship

Care

Cartoon

Cash

Challenges

Change

Character

Checks

Childhood

Choices

Christmas

Clout

Coffee

Cold

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Quotes by Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson

A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.

A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

As far as I’m concerned, if something is so complicated that you can’t explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway.

Books are almost always better than the movies made from them, because there are things books do well and things movies do well, but usually those things don’t overlap: the same with comics and animation.

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