Artist Quote by Seth MacFarlane

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 was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in…

— Jack Nicholson

I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

— Peter Frampton

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it,…

— Matt Groening

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.

— Paul Laffoley

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

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it…

— Brian Michael Bendis

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

— Gary Larson

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

I went into Hollywood and met Mike Aarons and went to Grantray-Lawrence Animation to work on the, by today's standards, extremely cheap and crude…

— Mike Royer

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 grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, loving comic books, and they were much cartoonier. And then everything became super dark and…

— Genndy Tartakovsky