Top 24 Quotes About Political Cartoons
#1. Political cartoons are the ass-end of the artform
Ivan Brunetti
#2. I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.
Terry Gilliam
#3. I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I'm proudest of.
Jerry Robinson
#4. I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.
Karl Lagerfeld
#5. I've been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications - the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
Bill Watterson
#6. Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.
Patrick Chappatte
#7. To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.
Tom Tomorrow
#8. That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
Berkeley Breathed
#9. He liked I expect the idea of effortless excellence, and being unable to combine the two has settled for the one he could be sure of ...
Helen DeWitt
#10. What would a respectful political cartoon look like?
Salman Rushdie
#11. I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?
Humphrey Carpenter
#12. Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
Umberto Eco
#13. Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.
Samuel R. Delany
#14. I've created tens of thousands of jobs over the years.
Donald Trump
#15. I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best!
I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
Walt Whitman
#16. I do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own children; and I am sure, if I had been you, I should have tried long ago to do something or other about it. Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain to her the nature of an entail.
Jane Austen
#17. There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
Kate DiCamillo
#20. I forget what the weather was like that day, probably cloudy with a chance of emotion. All I remember is that it was windy; it was the type of wind that would blow your words in the opposite direction so they would never be heard.
Hillary Wen, Hildy Wen
#21. You can't clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
Josef Albers
#23. The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
William Henry Harrison
#24. I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
Maira Kalman
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
