Cartoonist Quote by Roy Lichtenstein

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

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

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

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

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

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their…

— Marc Davis

A cartoon character isn't a specific person. It isn't Tom Cruise or George Clooney playing the part, it's a character that could be you.…

— Tomm Moore

Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But…

— Jim Woodring

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

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

— Pat Oliphant

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

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do…

— Berkeley Breathed