Art Quotes by Bill Watterson

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

— Bill Watterson

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

— Bill Watterson

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to…

— Bill Watterson

I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like…

— Bill Watterson

It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone…

— Bill Watterson

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

— Bill Watterson

Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages…

— Bill Watterson

Although I'm certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I'm fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate…

— Bill Watterson

If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because…

— Bill Watterson

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to…

— Bill Watterson

When I get to the drawing, I really enjoy taking a big chunk of time and working on the drawing and nothing…

— Bill Watterson

Saturday morning cartoons do that now, where they develop the toy and then draw the cartoon around it, and the result is…

— Bill Watterson

“We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without…

— Bill Watterson