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.
BILL WATTERSONArt has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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