Always Quote by Scott Adams

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

I don't consider myself a cartoonist, because to me a cartoonist has a lot of technical ability to draw and such. However, I do…

— Perez Hilton

“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

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was…

— Lynda Barry

I think it's best to know about lots of different things besides comics. I don't think you can become a cartoonist if you look…

— Akira Toriyama

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

— Robert Mankoff

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

— Pat Oliphant

I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world. If I…

— Adrian Tomine

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

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

— Michael Leunig

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 guess I consider myself a cartoonist first, though I was "trained" as a painter/printmaker/sculptor. If there's still any resistance to cartooning in the…

— Chris Ware