Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
BILL WATTERSONForm follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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