I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I…

When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working…

— Chuck Close

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

— Nathan Oliveira

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a…

— James Franco

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

— William Klein

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

— Max Cannon

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of…

— Craig Thompson

Fortunately, cartooning is not a job. It's something like eating or sleeping.

— Sergio Aragones

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…

— Ralph Bakshi

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…

— Jim Woodring

“And to celebrate I will create a series of masterpieces showing how wrong-headed and primitive you and your ideologies are, and it is this…

— Anonymous

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

— Hugh Hefner

I haven't really lost faith in my work - other than for quite short periods when the work is harder than usual - but…

— Jessica Abel

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

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

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a…

— Jeff Kinney