--- title: "7 Cartoonist Quotes By Jules Feiffer" description: "7 Cartoonist quotes by Jules Feiffer. Plus more from Jules Feiffer and more Cartoonist sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/036/jules-feiffer-11086_balance_i-have-no-sense-of-direction-i-never-kno_127518.jpg" --- > [I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. When I back up a car, I'm more likely to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-have-no-sense-of-direction-i-never-know-where-i-am-when-i-back-up-a/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/036/jules-feiffer-11086_balance_i-have-no-sense-of-direction-i-never-kno_127518.jpg) > [Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/cartoons-were-very-conservative-the-country-was-very-conservative/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d09/jules-feiffer-11086_balance_cartoons-were-very-conservative-the-coun_205188.jpg) > [I'm not electronically geared at all; I'm really a 19th century cartoonist. I have a 15-year-old daughter, and what she's attracted to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-m-not-electronically-geared-at-all-i-m-really-a-19th-century/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09e/jules-feiffer-11086_19th-century_i-m-not-electronically-geared-at-all-i-m_612900.jpg) > [When I am working a book, I go through my library and take a look through some of the great cartoonists of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/when-i-am-working-a-book-i-go-through-my-library-and-take-a-look/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/695/jules-feiffer-11086_art_when-i-am-working-a-book-i-go-through-my_887757.jpg) > [And all the things I thought were mistakes and I did cartoons on them. And then I think I was the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/and-all-the-things-i-thought-were-mistakes-and-i-did-cartoons-on-them/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/025/jules-feiffer-11086_battle_and-all-the-things-i-thought-were-mistak_2214018.jpg) > [I've never met a cartoonist who isn't quirky or weird in some ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-ve-never-met-a-cartoonist-who-isn-t-quirky-or-weird-in-some-ways/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/jules-feiffer-11086_cartoonist_i-ve-never-met-a-cartoonist-who-isn-t-qu_2536603.jpg) > [I'm not sure about that role any longer. The role used to be to mix things up and I think to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-m-not-sure-about-that-role-any-longer-the-role-used-to-be-to-mix/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/313/jules-feiffer-11086_cartoon_i-m-not-sure-about-that-role-any-longer_3038798.jpg) ## Other authors on Cartoonist ## More by Jules Feiffer > [When you do the kind of work I do, everything is challenging, but probably the most challenging thing is getting up in the morning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/when-you-do-the-kind-of-work-i-do-everything-is-challenging-but/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [When people started reading me and talking to me about the work, they didn't say how funny, or how satiric, or how brilliant, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/when-people-started-reading-me-and-talking-to-me-about-the-work-they/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/artists-can-color-the-sky-red-because-they-know-it-s-blue-those-of-us/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. When I back up a car, I'm more likely to hit what's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-have-no-sense-of-direction-i-never-know-where-i-am-when-i-back-up-a/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [Design is important because chaos is so hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/design-is-important-because-chaos-is-so-hard/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [I was doing cartoons and mocking white liberals, mocking the attitude of government who said to go slow, while intending to do absolutely nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-was-doing-cartoons-and-mocking-white-liberals-mocking-the-attitude/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was a very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/cartoons-were-very-conservative-the-country-was-very-conservative/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [Remember when you were a kid and the boys didn't like the girls? Only sissies liked girls? What I'm trying to tell you is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/remember-when-you-were-a-kid-and-the-boys-didn-t-like-the-girls-only/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-didn-t-have-a-job-employers-were-afraid-of-losing-their-reputations/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-come-out-of-a-cold-war-sensibility-a-cold-war-mentality-and-during/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too, but it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-seemed-to-have-instinctually-a-strong-idea-of-how-the-strip-had-to/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know about today,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/that-was-exciting-to-be-able-to-comment-on-civil-rights-i-mean-the/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/the-artwork-had-very-little-to-do-with-the-thought-process-and-the/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [I'm not electronically geared at all; I'm really a 19th century cartoonist. I have a 15-year-old daughter, and what she's attracted to is of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-m-not-electronically-geared-at-all-i-m-really-a-19th-century/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) > [I found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was a kid.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-found-it-was-my-good-fortune-to-somehow-be-able-to-work-in-these/) [Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cartoonist/jules-feiffer/#itemlist", "name": "7 Cartoonist Quotes By Jules Feiffer", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. 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