Chester Brown famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.
-- Chester Brown

#Worry #Personality #Impossible
If I can avoid doing freelance work, I prefer to. Not just because it takes me away from drawing comics, but also because it's just annoying having to deal with art editors, and having to read people's articles or books or whatever.
-- Chester Brown

#Art #Book #Editors
If I do need to make money suddenly, I prefer to just draw something I want to draw and have someone else sell it for me on the Internet.
-- Chester Brown

#Needs #Want #Internet
I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with.
-- Chester Brown

#Past #Bored #Stuff
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.
-- Chester Brown

#Sibling #Parent #What If
When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.
-- Chester Brown

#Teenager #Interesting #Interviews
We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.
-- Chester Brown

#Behaviour #Stranger #Economic
That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.
-- Chester Brown

#Medicine #One Direction #Answers
Penthouse' didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces.
-- Chester Brown

#Girl #Way #Faces
I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.
-- Chester Brown

#Mom #Reading #Matter
I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.
-- Chester Brown

#Book #Thinking #Giving
I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.
-- Chester Brown

#Book #Thinking #Drawing
Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.
-- Chester Brown

#Smart #Hero #Book
We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.
-- Chester Brown

#People #Accepting
I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.
-- Chester Brown

#Running #Thinking #People
I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.
-- Chester Brown

#Hurt #Thinking #People
I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.
-- Chester Brown

#Teenage #Reading #Years
I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.
-- Chester Brown

#Finishing #Planning
Almost every scene, I re-think as Im about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time Im changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.
-- Chester Brown

#Thinking #Drawing #Different
It's because I do see sex as sacred and potentially spiritual that I believe in commercializing it and making this potentially holy experience more easily available to all.
-- Chester Brown

#Spiritual #Sex #Believe
With each of those projects I wasnt thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasnt the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.
-- Chester Brown

#Thinking #Stories #Projects

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