Cartoon Quote by Chris Ware Download Open image “Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.” — Chris Ware ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cartoon Drawing Real
The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not. — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
"Real" drawing is about specifics. It's about describing an object as accurately as possible. In a comic strip you have to draw a picture… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
One of the great things about cartoons is that they're not real - you're not watching real people and it engages your imagination. One… — Tim Daly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Cartoons ran into trouble when they became too much like real life images. Cartoons had become poor imitations of the real thing. — William Hanna Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such constant "ups,"… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“The whole experience reminded me of my own 'old lady' phase that I went through in high school while I was reading Somerset Maugham... The embroidered sweaters, the costume jewelry... I remember genuinely WANTING to be old then, to act as if the business of my life was already all but over, and that I was preternaturally wise because of… — Chris Ware Copy Share
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… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
There's a rhythm to the words combined with the pictures [in a comic]. Whenever I'm working on a comic strip I re-read it, probably hundreds of times through to pay attention to how all of those things work. Sometimes even changing the angle of a character's eyebrow can really, seriously alter the effect and overall interpretation of a scene. And… — Chris Ware Copy Share
There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford to be. It's really an uncomfortable situation, since I'm not an illustrator, though I do get calls from morally indefensible businesses offering me money to decorate their ambitions. It's extremely rare, almost unheard of, in fact, that I… — Chris Ware Copy Share
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
The thing that was interesting to me about Relationshapes - as opposed to most of the other cartoons I've ever made - was I… — David Rees Copy Share Image
If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about… — Fred Seibert Copy Share Image
I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like "every ultimate fact soon becomes the next in a series." The self feels more real when you are destroying things you've made than when you are paying them homage. That's the good news about being self-destructive.… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share
I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once. — Steve Cropper Copy Share Image
