Top 179 Cartoonist Quotes & Sayings

I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

I am principally an artist. I became a political cartoonist.

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.

If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.

My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

The thing that I came to realize was that Schulz is the great unifier. Here's the one cartoonist that pretty much everybody can agree on.

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true!

I'd rather be a cartoonist. I don't want to be a publisher.

I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult and pay the rent.

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

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

For a young cartoonist, they have to get going on the web, because that's where everybody goes for their information. And it really works.

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

My father was a dreamer who was always broke. He wanted to be a cartoonist.

For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.

As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

I never really thought of myself as an Asian-American cartoonist, any more than I thought of myself as a cartoonist who wears glasses.

Any working cartoonist will tell you this, anybody who's working in a creative field: at some point, it's a job. You have deadlines. I think, for over a year, I refused to make them for publications, because I only wanted to make them when I wanted to make them. But at some point, I was like, "This is crazy, you have an opportunity to be a professional cartoonist.

If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.

I've never met a cartoonist who isn't quirky or weird in some ways.

I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish.

I grew up in the home of a political cartoonist, so I was a junkie for politics.

A cartoonist's style is created by weaknesses and personal restrictions as much as strengths.

The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

I started out wanting to be a straight adventure cartoonist, but in 1979 realized what my real bag was.

It's a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my career, I was really tethered to the superhero world.

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

I write separately from the inking up. I'm sure this varies from cartoonist to cartoonist; I find that the writing is the hard part and the drawing is the fun part.

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.

I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and just say, "Don't think of me as an Asian cartoonist. Just think of me as a cartoonist."

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.

Among politicians, I would say Sonia Gandhi is not exactly a cartoonist's delight.

I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

I don't consider myself a cartoonist, because to me a cartoonist has a lot of technical ability to draw and such. However, I do consider myself to have a bit of a cartoonist character. I definitely am analyzing and satirizing pop culture and politics and whatever strikes my fancy.

When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

I started out being a cartoonist at school, but I went to CalArts to study.

I don't think I would've ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn't set myself up for that disappointment.