Top 810 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Cartoonists - Page 2

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

The 4D style, or cosmic comics and relativistic humor, is based on Einstein's theory of relativity which I came up with 20 years ago. 4D works use the idea of the fourth dimension, time, playing on such surrealistic and amazing subjects as motion relativity, space curvature and time dilation.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.

In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her--and then he finds out he'd need fireplace tongs to get her undressed? Yeah, upset is the word.

What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

The end of the world is approaching, maybe by the year 2010.

You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else.

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.

He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.

It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.

As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.

Certainly I enjoy the outré and I enjoy artistic comics and surrealism in comics very much. But the decision I made and have stuck with and refined was the decision to try to be funny and communicate humor. Once you put that ahead of everything else, it resolves those other questions for you.

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

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

Everything is Flammable was the first full-length book I was able to finish. I started a couple others, but ran out of steam. This one had momentum, I never got bored or discouraged. It is made up of short pieces, which is where my comfort zone is. I'm more of a sprinter than a long-distance runner. When you do a short piece, you get in and get out; you don't linger.

It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.

Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose!

By believing in his dreams, man turns them into reality.

Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality . ...Complete freedom implies equality, since if there are rich and poor, the poor cannot be permitted to take liberties with riches. Complete equality implies freedom, since those who suffer restrictions cannot be the equals of those who impose them.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane.

I'm just a little old cartoonist, tryin' to make a buck.

If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.

The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques.

Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.

Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It takes what we know and it twists it. ... Because women are on the ground floor, and we know the traditions so well, we can bring a different voice to the table.

The main thing I like about New Yorkers is that they understand that their lives are a relentless circus of horrors, ending in death. As New Yorkers, we realize this, we resign ourselves to our fate, and we make sure that everyone else is as miserable as we are. Good town.

In the dictionary, beautiful, love, amazing, and sweet all have the same definition: the definition is you.

You have to own your days and name them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters.

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.

I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.

If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.

Political cartoons are the ass-end of the artform

New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.

Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.

Let's make some funny pictures.