Art Quote by Chris Ware

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

Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed to realize…

— Jessica Abel

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

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint…

— Ralph Bakshi

Cartooning isn't really drawing, any more than talking is singing... The possible vocabulary of comics is by definition unlimited, the tactility of an experience…

— Chris Ware

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

Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But…

— Jim Woodring

You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become…

— Marjane Satrapi

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

— Bill Watterson

I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the…

— Roz Chast

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

— Joseph Barbera

I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic…

— Raymond Pettibon