Best Cartoonist Quotes
89 Cartoonist quotes by 59 unique authors
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'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.
— Frank Miller
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The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.
— Charles M. Schulz
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If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic…
— Scott McCloud
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We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.
— Stephan Pastis
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Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message:…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
— Bill Watterson
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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of…
— Pat Oliphant
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I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea…
— Edward Ruscha
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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
— Ted Rall
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The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one…
— Ted Rall
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a…
— Ted Rall
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I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.
— Michael Stuhlbarg
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I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't…
— Jonathan Lethem
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In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or…
— Jhonen Vasquez
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Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.
— Chris Ware
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I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the…
— Chris Ware
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I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate…
— Chris Ware
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Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see…
— Cathy Guisewite
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Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.
— Ralph Bakshi
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A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.
— Mark Hamill
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There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying…
— Paul Conrad
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Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work…
— Bill Watterson
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Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a…
— Stan Smith
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Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from…
— Will Eisner
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