Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies. Roz Chast More Quotes by Roz Chast More Quotes From Roz Chast I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start. Roz Chast nursing past thinking I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else. Roz Chast used laughing thinking Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen. Roz Chast phobia tiny thinking I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae. Roz Chast thinking The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not. Roz Chast real mean art My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it. Roz Chast parent mother father I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents. Roz Chast cute hands thinking I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image. Roz Chast painting art school I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it. Roz Chast plasticity form cartoon I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed. Roz Chast gave-up trying way A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it. Roz Chast advice kids thinking I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that. Roz Chast nerd black art You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen, and you'll be in this bed, and somebody's going to have to clean you up. Roz Chast bed praying want I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny. Roz Chast mean thinking It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it. Roz Chast mental-health selfishness care My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes. Roz Chast eye life-is brain I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that Im fighting a thousand people. Roz Chast shopping fighting people I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid. Roz Chast superhero bored kids I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason. Roz Chast cartoon reason littles Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate. Roz Chast fingerprints cabinets long
