Abstraction Quote by Berkeley Breathed

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

— Seth MacFarlane

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning…

— Scott Adams

Cartooning is an artistic commitment that requires the full attention and passion of the artist on every level; one should not get into it…

— Chris Ware

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

— John Lasseter

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it,…

— Matt Groening

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

— Gary Larson

The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart…

— Ralph Bakshi

I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in…

— Jack Nicholson

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their…

— Marc Davis

“What I’ve noticed in a lot of other cartoonists is a sullen resentfulness about their lack of attention and tiny checking accounts. I vowed…

— Matt Groening

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

— Sergio Aragones

When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.'…

— John Lasseter