Animation Quote by Ralph Bakshi

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

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

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

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

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

I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a…

— Ralph Bakshi

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 really is just designing.

— Charles M. Schulz

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

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

— Pat Oliphant

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

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