Cartoon Quotes

• The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • War
  • Speech
  • Gospel

• I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Age
  • Hair

• Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

  

  Nomar Garciaparra
  • Baseball
  • Fields
  • Balls

• One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.

  

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
  • Heart
  • Artist
  • Belt

• I'm not for the villains, I'm only for the princesses. I mean it's fun to have Jafar Aladdin cartoon villain or whatever; I didn't even remember their names 'cause they're not important to me.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Fun
  • Villains
  • Princesses

• I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Reason
  • Cartoon
  • Plates

• The whole Gorillaz concept is one for mavericks; it's a way for people who never have a chance to work together being able to ally behind the cartoons.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Together
  • Chance

• The whole idea of rock and roll lifestyle is a cartoon. It's a caricature. And at times, it's made up of people emulating others; a few who actually live that lifestyle and many who claim to live that lifestyle.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Lifestyle
  • Rock And Roll
  • Cartoon

• I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

  

  Paul Conrad
  • Ideas
  • Readership
  • Editorials

• [on the future of hand-drawn animation] I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Rich
  • Strange
  • Worried

• I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Drawing
  • Ends
  • Jokes

• I was a big comic, cartoon, animation nerd.

  

  Winston Duke
  • Comic
  • Animation
  • Cartoon

• I am an old school sort of syndicated cartoon watcher. I'm a big fan of Voltron, too.

  

  Seamus Dever
  • Fan
  • Cartoon

• I had a very specific goal and I think kids, more than adults, don't understand obstacles and competition. I wanted to be this one cartoon character Porky Pig, couldn't figure out why I couldn't do it, other than living in the midwest.

  

  Bob Bergen
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Goal

• I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

  

  Peter Frampton
  • Musician
  • Started
  • Cartoon

• I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Form
  • Cartoon
  • Plasticity

• As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.

  

  Steve Breen
  • Opinion
  • Inspiration
  • Cartoon

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

  

  Paul Conrad
  • Minutes
  • Ideals
  • Editorials

• People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction.

  

  Saul Steinberg
  • See
  • Drawing
  • Artistic

• I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.

  

  Roz Chast
  • School
  • Art
  • Painting

• I did take some voiceover classes. I always loved the idea of doing a voice for a cartoon character. I just voiced the character of Suzi X in the upcoming 'The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.'

  

  Sheri Moon Zombie
  • Character
  • Always
  • Classes

• And there were sort of three toys for boys and three toys for girls. And the boys I can remember was, well, there was a Dan Dare Ray Gun. Dan Dare was a sort of a cartoon character. He was just sort of a - he was like a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, only in space.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Character
  • Girl
  • Gun

• There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Character
  • Understanding
  • Lonely

• I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Broken
  • Flood

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