Able Quote by John Lasseter

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 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

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

— Chuck Jones

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere…

— Brad Bird

There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of…

— Matt Groening

I don't know how to animate on the computer, and I'm really grateful that I worked with a couple of other guys. We called…

— Glen Keane

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by…

— Robert Rodriguez

To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it through pictures.

— Bud Luckey

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

— Terry Gilliam

Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to…

— Chuck Jones

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

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

— Lev Yilmaz