Art Quote by Chris Ware Chris Ware

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a…

— Chris Ware

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

— Matt Groening

Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.

— John DiMaggio

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

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

— Lev Yilmaz

“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

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

Cartoons ran into trouble when they became too much like real life images. Cartoons had become poor imitations of the real thing.

— William Hanna

Sometimes I'm convinced that one day I'm going to draw the cartoon that offends everyone, and that'll be the end.

— Gary Larson

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

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort…

— Damon Albarn

I think cartoons are important. Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why…

— John DiMaggio