19th-century Cartoonist Quotes

Wilhelm Busch

George du Maurier

Winsor McCay

George Herriman

Rube Goldberg

Kin Hubbard

Th' thing I like about general practitioners is that you don't have t' let 'em know a week ahead when you're goin' t' be sick.

Methods of locomotion have improved greatly in recent years, but places to go remain about the same.

Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

George du Maurier

I don't care for Lady Macbeth in the streetwalking scene.

Edward Linley Sambourne

In my Kosmis there will be no feeva of discord... all my immotions will function in hominy and kind feelings.

George Herriman

A toothache, not to be perverse, Is an unmitigated curse...

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch—terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

But that is exactly what I like about this science of geology. It is infinite, ambiguous, like all poetry; like all poetry it has secrets, is permeated by them, lives within them, without being destroyed by them. It does not lift the veil, but only moves it, and through tiny holes in the fabric a few rays escape, which dazzle the eye.

Rodolphe Töpffer

I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.