Skip to content

Portrait of Barry Blitt

Barry Blitt

(1958) Artist

20 quotes in 129 categories

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Barry Blitt is an artist.

Quick Facts About Barry Blitt

Born: April 30, 1958
Profession: Artist

About Barry Blitt

American political cartoonist... | Barry Blitt is a Canadian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his New Yorker covers and as a regular contributor to the op-ed page of The New York Times. Blitt creates his works in traditional pen and ink, as well as watercolors.

Quotes by Barry Blitt

I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question.

Image

A cartoonist's style is created by weaknesses and personal restrictions as much as strengths.

Artist

Image

I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate…

Image

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say…

Image

The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.

Image

All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim…

Image

If you're asking me what I love, it's that point where I'm just scribbling and trying to make myself laugh and trying…

Image

I felt it was more fun to knock people down than to build them up. I seemed to get a better reaction…

Image

I like to make myself laugh. When I'm just sitting with a sketchbook and trying to make myself laugh or trying to…

Image

I've been thinking of trying to de-caricaturize Donald Trump. I thought it would be fun to try and, since he's already a…

Image

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures…

Hockey

Image

When I'm online and I see a picture I want to draw of anybody or anything, a unique angle of them or…

Image

I don't have a philosophy of caricature. I'm not even sure I am a caricaturist, in the strictest sense of the word…

Philosophy

Image

Just look at the back of Donald Trump's head, any angle. There's some angles that his chin is just, what do I…

Image

The magazine business is dying. It's a hard time for publishing. It does seem that everyone is much more opinionated now. I…

Art

Image

I'm, like, not overly into labels. I've been referred to that way, but I tend to think of political cartoonists as constantly…

Awe

Image

I don't really know what makes someone want to be a cartoonist, but part of it is trying to get in trouble.…

Image

The back of Donald Trump's head is fantastic and his eyebrows are amazing. His overbite and his series of chins and the…

Image

I do a lot of pivoting. There was one cover I did of Donald Trump, after he won Iowa, it seemed like…

Image

Luckily, my limited attention span is well suited to the velocity of the news cycles. There's an assault of stories coming at…

Attention

Image