Cartooning 4 Quotes

#1. Cartooning really is just designing.

Charles M. Schulz

#2. All of my cartoons are better than each other.

Brian Spellman

#3. Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.

Charles M. Schulz

#4. I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.

David Horsey

#5. Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

Matt Groening

#6. You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.

Marjane Satrapi

#7. 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

#8. If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.

Gene Luen Yang

#9. My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.

Gary Larson

#10. I hope to actually get back to painting someday ... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Max Cannon

#11. I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.

David Rees

#12. On the list of things I cannot draw, wedding dresses are right there next to cars.

Stephan Pastis

#13. I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist.

Ralph Bakshi

#14. People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

Matt Groening

#15. All these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust

Nathanael West

#16. Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

Ralph Bakshi

#17. There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

Roy Lichtenstein

#18. Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Berkeley Breathed

#19. Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.

Russell Baker

#20. The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.

Berkeley Breathed

#21. Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.

Cathy Guisewite

#22. But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

Craig McCracken

#23. I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.

Tom Tomorrow

#24. I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

Gary Larson

#25. Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

Gary Larson

#26. Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

Jonathan Shapiro

#27. I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.

Jim Woodring

#28. I was drawing professionally by the time I was 12. I used to do very detailed sort of photorealistic pen-and-ink work, and I burned out on it around, like, high school. And cartooning really got me back into drawing.

Dan Povenmire

#29. Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

Ivan Brunetti

#30. So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

Bill Sienkiewicz