Cartoonist Quotes

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say. View quote
Ralph Bakshi
The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my life. Drawing. View quote
Charles M. Schulz
A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself. View quote
Charles M. Schulz
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. View quote
Ralph Bakshi
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms! View quote
Bill Watterson
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well. View quote
Stephan Pastis
When you're a cartoonist, you sort of have to be, like, sensitive – or maybe open's a better word – to what's going on around you. When you're an attorney, you're just like a bulldog with your head down. View quote
Stephan Pastis
I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff. View quote
Harvey Pekar
I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something? View quote
David Hornsby
I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer. (Lynda Barry)
I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist. View quote
Lynda Barry
Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word. View quote
Lynda Barry
I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail. View quote
Humphrey Lyttelton
What most people don't know about love, sex, and relations with other human beings would fill a book. Strangers in Paradise is that book. I have long suspected that what people did in private was much funnier than it ever was erotic. Terry Moore obviously thinks so too. Strangers in Paradise is a delightful new comic, and Terry Moore is a fun writer and a fine cartoonist. View quote
Neil Gaiman
I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker. View quote
Terry Gilliam
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. View quote
Bill Watterson
The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up. View quote
Ted Rall
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. View quote
Robert Crumb
This dish might not turn you into a syndicated cartoonist, but whatever you're doing now probably isn't working either. View quote
Scott Adams
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. (Scott Adams)
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. View quote
Walt Disney
My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals. View quote
Matt Groening
I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something. View quote
Matt Groening
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such. View quote
Robert Rodriguez