Cartoonist Quotes

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.”
― Walt Kelly

“Tapi apa yang kita paling nak, itulah yang kita takkan dapat...”
― Tembakau Kartini

“If you want to be a cartoonist, live the life of a cartoonist.”
― Oliver Gaspirtz

“Cartoonist found dead in the home. Details are sketchy.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Gags and Extracts

“It’s hard to tell everybody to go home if nobody shows up.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“If art didn't tell the truth, politicians would hire painters, not lawyers!”
― Dipti Dhakul

“It's impossible to get worse at something you do every day.”
― Brad Guigar, How To Make Webcomics

“De cartoonist is het eeuwige oppositielid: is de samenleving rechts, dan is de cartoonist links. Is de samenleving links, dan is de cartoonist rechts. Een samenleving in balans, een rechtvaardige samenleving, is er een die geen cartoonist meer nodig heeft.”
― Lectrr, We mogen niks meer zeggen

“Tussen het ontbijt en de aankomst op je werkplek heb jij al meer informatie geconsumeerd dan de middeleeuwse mens in zijn hele leven.”
― Lectrr, We mogen niks meer zeggen

“Why can't bilingualism be seen as an extra resource? Is it because kids who can think in two languages are smarter?

(from the book Attitude, 2002)”
― Lalo Alcaraz

“I'm just a guy who was predisposed to be a cartoonist, who happened to make it through all the bullshit that comes with being poor and brown

(from an interview in the book Attitude, 2002)”
― Lalo Alcaraz

“I dug Mad Magazine, my brain is wired to mock, and Mad just confirmed my world view since I was a kid

(from an interview in the book Attitude, 2002)”
― Lalo Alcaraz

“In college I was an editorial cartoonist for my school paper, The Daily Aztec...I did straight, news-oriented editorial cartoons. Occasionally, my Chicano background snuck in to the toons simply because I might do a César Chavez toon about how the School Student Board was too stupidly racist to allow him to speak on campus or other anti-frat toons on how they were so racist in doing fund-raisers for Tijuana kid charities--dressed in sombreros and begging with tin cups

(from an interview in the book Attitude, 2002)”
― Lalo Alcaraz

“Cars are environmental enemy number one.

(from an interview in Attitude, 2002)”
― Andy Singer

“The virtuosity and visual humor of people like A.B. Frost, T.S. Sullivant, and [Thomas] Nast of course, have so much depth and innate humor that I couldn't really resist cross hatching. Later day cross-hatchers like Ron Cobb and Bill Plympton were also early influences.

(from an interview in Attitude, 2002)”
― Matt Wuerker

“Many of the smartest people and most creative talents are working for the brainwashers, using dazzling images, sex and violence to rob us of our sanity.”
― Matt Wuerker

“The self-righteously bitter cartoons that appear in sectarian magazines are fine if all you want to do is preach to the choir, but I believe you can reach a lot more people with humor.

(from an interview in Attitude, 2002)”
― Matt Wuerker

“Globalization is part of modern reality. How you define it is where the conflict is. Some of us think that it's civilized to provide people with water by putting up public drinking fountains. Other people think that drinking fountains need to be eliminated so as not to undercut the market for $2.00 bottled water.

(from an interview in Attitude, 2002)”
― Matt Wuerker

“Cartoons are a great medium for demonstrating just how absurd something is, without ever having to say it directly.

(2002 interview in Attitude)”
― Jen Sorensen

“My goal with 'Slowpoke' is to present a solidly-written piece of humor that usually entails some form of social or political commentary exposing distinctly ludicrous aspects of American life.

(2002 interview in Attitude)”
― Jen Sorensen

“Sometimes I get letters from non-Natives who have called me racist and insensitive to Natives untl they realize that I am Native myself. Non-Natives often walk up to me and say, "I didn't get the cartoon today," and I reply, "That's ok, I don't get the cartoons in The New Yorker either.”
― Ricardo Cate, Without Reservations: The Cartoons of Ricardo Cate

“Khalil Bendib, with a few ingenious strokes of his pen, gets to the heart of the issues of our time. His cartoons are in the greatest tradition of American political humor, with that combination of wit and intelligence so needed in the struggle for justice.”
― Howard Zinn

“Q: What are your main motivations when drawing?

My main motivation is to communicate an idea and generate a personal dialogue or with the reader around each image. I think we draw to "rethink"...I try by means of synthesis to tell as many things as possible, to reflect our inconsistencies and those of our society or simply to play with the absurd. It's a job that I really enjoy ”.

(Interview on Irancartoon.com)”
― Elena Ospina Mejia

“The difference between a cartoonist and an illustrator was the same as the difference between a comedian and a comedy actor - the former both deliver their own lines and take full responsibility for them, the latter could always hide behind the fact that it was not his entire creation.”
― Calum MacKenzie

“Cartoons are like driving—fun to experience, impossible to explain!”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-

“OOoooOOoooowwwwwww, Aaaaaaaagghghghgh” he cried out suddenly. Stopped in midair and slowly spinning, the problem revealed itself. As he was descending, a big tuft of his large, fluffy red beard had been sucked into the ‘biner break. Ever so irrevocably, the rest of his face appeared to be sucking into it too.”
― Tami Knight, Secret Plans: Vol. III: 40+ Years of Cartoons for Climbers

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