Art Quote by Paul Laffoley Download Open image “I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.” — Paul Laffoley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Cartoon Cartoon character Cartoon Characters Character Painting Pop art Pops Wells
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of… — Walt Disney 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
I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting. — Max Cannon Copy Share Image
I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share
I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was doing anything like that, just throwing together… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
You know, Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." I think it was inspired by that [H.P.Lovecraft stories]. You don't know who's reading what, you… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to me?" He thought he wouldn't be involved in that kind of stuff for the rest of his life. He just wanted to make money. He was one of those people who took over the family responsibility. His own… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been in my studio by myself since 1968 on up. And the thing is that my social life consisted of being involved in organizations like that. I would get people to come and speak, and speak myself and that… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with believing in gravity. And so he started the Babson Institute in New Boston, New Hampshire, which then moved to Gloucester. Each year they have a competition of one thousand dollars for one thousand words of an essay on… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity exists or… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
My father was an extremely brilliant man. I consider him a genius, and so he probably could have joined Mensa. But why? I got… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in the center you have the Earth, all the seven heavens and layers, and then you have the Mount of Purgatory and Hell right in the center, and here's Satan flapping his wings and he keeps making… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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