Quotes by David Rees

David Rees

I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States, pencil consumption went up by over six percent. I mean, those are all foreign-made pencils. Those are probably Chinese pencils, mostly, and Mexican pencils. I mean, it is an archaic communication technology, but it is still ubiquitous.

Communication

Mean

Technology

I don’t even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.

Robots

Sweat

Taste

I don’t think I would’ve ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn’t set myself up for that disappointment.

Disappointment

Dream

Thinking

I don’t want to be one of these people who’s like, “Man, I don’t know where my ideas come from and I don’t know why this works.”

Ideas

Men

People

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

Art

Believe

Thinking

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that’s creatively satisfying.

Felt

Making Money

Stuff

I got to draw shapes. I really like to draw funky, geometric shapes. And I got to use just different fonts and make a joke of how feminine it was, but it didn’t even have people in it. To me, it was so exciting and interesting to do that for a while.

Geometric Shapes

Interesting

People

I had good relationships with stores. And I was like, “All right, I’ll self-publish it. But I’m only going to do 1,000.”

Good Relationship

Self

Stores

I hardly ever use pencils. I’m left-handed and it’s really messy if you’re left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them more now than I used to because there’s, like, 15,000 pencils all over my house.

House

Messy

Used

I hate self-publishing; it’s a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.

Hate

Real

Self

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America

Art

Believe

Book

Cartoon

Census

Clip

Communication

Creative

Difficult Times

Disappointment

Done

Dream

Feelings

Felt

Geometric Shapes

Good Relationship

Grandchildren

Hate

House

Ideas

Interesting

Laughing

Make You Smile

Making Money

Mean

Men

Messy

Moving

Obscure

Paid

People

Powerful

Profanity

Prose

Prose Writing

Quitting

Real

Robots

Self

Sharpening Pencils

Special

Stores

Stuff

Sweat

Taste

Technology

Thinking

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Quotes by David Rees

David Rees

I don’t even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.

I don’t think I would’ve ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn’t set myself up for that disappointment.

I don’t want to be one of these people who’s like, “Man, I don’t know where my ideas come from and I don’t know why this works.”

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that’s creatively satisfying.

I got to draw shapes. I really like to draw funky, geometric shapes. And I got to use just different fonts and make a joke of how feminine it was, but it didn’t even have people in it. To me, it was so exciting and interesting to do that for a while.

I had good relationships with stores. And I was like, “All right, I’ll self-publish it. But I’m only going to do 1,000.”

I hardly ever use pencils. I’m left-handed and it’s really messy if you’re left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them more now than I used to because there’s, like, 15,000 pencils all over my house.

I hate self-publishing; it’s a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.

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