Cartoonist Quotes

I propose that infinitely refutable statistics be declared the official language of politics.

Mark Alan Stamaty

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.

The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!

You may think you're not pretty enough for me, but I bet I'm pretty enough for the both of us.

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

Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

David Rees (cartoonist)

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.

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.

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

Men may control the free world, but women control the boobs.

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

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.

While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful...

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

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

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."

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy... How can I ever forget them...

Charles M. Schulz

Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you.

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.

David Berman (musician)

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

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

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.

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

Ashleigh Brilliant