Cartoonist Quotes

Wilhelm Busch

Osamu Tezuka

Matt Groening

George du Maurier

James Thurber

Carl Barks

Winsor McCay

Audiences want to support artists. Which is pretty much how it's always been except during the last 100 years where it's turned into this really vicious, cutthroat, nasty business with all these blood-thirsty, parasitic middle-men. But historically, artists were relatively poor and supported directly by their audiences. There's a great book called The Gift by Lewis Hyde. You know, art is a gift and it turns out the audience is happy to give back.

No, Thursday's out. How about never—is never good for you?

It was great fun, to learn anew. You think you know enough, but you don't. You must open up; let it in. be receptive, admit what you don't know, which few are willing to do. Start from square one. Again!

I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I had more flow as a designer. I could just drop down into the zone and stay there for hours. With cartooning, I'm constantly coming up for air, procrastinating, looking for reasons not to be doing it. I spend all day granting myself special dispensation, with 'creative process' as my cover story. Carpenters and deli countermen can't do that, so I think they may feel better about themselves at the end of the day.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

It must be done rapidly, with careless care, so it doesn't look like work.

I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.

Cathy Guisewite

The running shoe... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?

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

Not all the war correspondents [in Afghanistan] were nervous. My wife asked a journalist covering the Khanabad front why he didn't wear a bulletproof vest. (At $1,200 each, we couldn't afford them.) "Are you kidding?" the heavyset photographer for The San Jose Mercury News replied as he wiped his brow. "It's too hot out here."

A zebra can't drive a moon-buggy. Or any other sort of car for that matter.

On the success of the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants:

I think we all thought the show would be good, but I didn't ever assume it would catch on in a mass audience sort of way, that's unexpected, and we're flattered and relieved. Our characters act silly, even totally ridiculous at times, and most of our jokes don't come out of pop cultural references, he added. It seems like we're aiming at a child audience, but everyone can laugh at the basic human traits that are funny. It's playful, the humor is playful, the world is playful. You can kind of let go.

Stephen Hillenburg

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

I think that if advanced beings were visiting Earth, we'd know it by their laughter.

Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles.

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.

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.

Homer: You know Mr. Burns, you're the richest guy I know.
Mr. Burns: Oh yes, but I'd trade it all for a little more.

A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.

Osbert Lancaster

Wait a minute, can't you? I've only got three hands.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.