Quotes about Cartoons

Cartoons are windows into the human condition, Votes: 3

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read. Votes: 3

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events. Votes: 3

Sometimes I wish I could just wear the same thing every day. Cartoons do it. It’d make things a lot easier Votes: 3

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes. Votes: 3

Cartoons are the best stuff on TV. 'Wonder Showzen,' 'Aqua Teen,' 'SpongeBob,' and, of course, 'South Park' - one of the funniest shows ever made. Votes: 3

Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000. Votes: 3

My mama didn't see it comin, my daddy was there. What's my excuse? Cartoons were the root. Started with Yosemite Sam With the gun in the palm of the hand, What couldn't I demand? Votes: 3

Cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness. Girls like stories with real conflict; girls are smart enough to understand complex plots; girls aren't as easily frightened as everyone seems to think. Votes: 3

I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books. Votes: 3

Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But creating a monumental work of architecture, or writing a great symphony, is something else. It's a higher order of creation. Votes: 3

Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go Votes: 1

I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids. Votes: 1

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason. Votes: 1

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. Votes: 1

With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right? Votes: 1

My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination. Votes: 1

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway Votes: 1

I don't like cartoons that take place in Nowhereville. I like cartoons where I know where they're happening. Votes: 1

It's not really a guilty pleasure, but I love old cartoons. I could watch Bugs Bunny and Tweety all day long. Votes: 1

I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons. Votes: 1

We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way. Votes: 1

I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz. Votes: 1

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read. Votes: 1

I'm a big kid. I love drinking chocolate milk. I'm not afraid to watch some cartoons once in a while when I'm with my nieces and actually be attentive. Votes: 1

Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons. Votes: 1

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head. Votes: 1

So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch the cartoons, they absolutely love it. Votes: 1

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence. Votes: 1

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly. Votes: 1

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw. Votes: 1

My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.' Votes: 1

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately. Votes: 1

A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally. Votes: 1

My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on... the nightly news would come on, and I'd see footage from the war zone, and I would hear the word 'Vietnam,' and I would know my dad was over there, and it was a very frightening experience for me. Votes: 1

When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much. Votes: 1

Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you're thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music. Votes: 1

We are all God's animated cartoons. Votes: 0

There are no cartoons about happy marriages. Votes: 0

I was always into cartoons and animation. Votes: 0

I like physics, but I love cartoons. Votes: 0

Political cartoons are the ass-end of the artform Votes: 0

The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons. Votes: 0

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football. Votes: 0

I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows. Votes: 0

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons. Votes: 0

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons. Votes: 0

When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons. Votes: 0

The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure. Votes: 0

I liked the girly cartoons. I was very much a girly-girl. Votes: 0

I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons. Votes: 0

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights. Votes: 0

We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims. Votes: 0

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons. Votes: 0

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers. Votes: 0

I think that cartoons have a lot more power than they're given credit for. Votes: 0

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection. Votes: 0

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head. Votes: 0

I love Saturday morning cartoons. What do you like to do on a Saturday morning? Votes: 0

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head. Votes: 0

I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if you watch cartoons long after your kids get bored. Votes: 0

I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead. Votes: 0

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons. Votes: 0

A lot of people get emotional in movies that are cartoons, but not in TV shows. Votes: 0

Betcha I wet cha like hurricanes and typhoons, got buffoons eating my pussy while I watch cartoons. Votes: 0

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons. Votes: 0

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust. Votes: 0

I watch a lot of cartoons. I watch a lot of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Phineas and Ferb." Votes: 0

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons. Votes: 0

I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them. Votes: 0

I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions. Votes: 0

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me. Votes: 0

I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories. Votes: 0

100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100 Votes: 0

Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started. Votes: 0

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me. Votes: 0

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats. Votes: 0

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines. Votes: 0

98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying. Votes: 0

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it. Votes: 0

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration. Votes: 0

I love cartoons. So when they came to me to make Ice Age and this sequel, I was so happy. Votes: 0

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not. Votes: 0

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad. Votes: 0

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. Votes: 0

He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really. Votes: 0

My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues. Votes: 0

I like the old-school Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons. I'm talking Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian! Votes: 0

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons. Votes: 0

We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there. Votes: 0

Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode. Votes: 0

There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies. Votes: 0

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world. Votes: 0

I did all sorts of cartoons and stuff. And every once in a while I still do. It's rare, but it happens. Votes: 0

I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting. Votes: 0

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons. Votes: 0

I am going to name a group of my kids after my favorite cartoons, I am going to name them after Transformers. Votes: 0

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil. Votes: 0

I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time. Votes: 0

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons. Votes: 0

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons. Votes: 0

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons. Votes: 0

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career. Votes: 0

[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit. Votes: 0

For me, off the field, cartoons are something that can ease my mind and get me back into having fun and just relaxing. Votes: 0

I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons Votes: 0

It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life. Votes: 0

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it. Votes: 0

I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why. Votes: 0

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression. Votes: 0

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer. Votes: 0

PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation. Votes: 0

My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations. Votes: 0

I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons. Votes: 0

I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger. Votes: 0

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons. Votes: 0

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all. Votes: 0

I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings. Votes: 0

I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check. Votes: 0

Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism. Votes: 0

Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests. Votes: 0

Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons. Votes: 0

I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons. Votes: 0

I don't really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch 'Adventure Time', 'The Amazing World of Gumball', and 'Looney Tunes' and old classic cartoons. Votes: 0

I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons. Votes: 0

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons! Votes: 0

I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach. Votes: 0

When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon - the people in the cartoons are not making the joke. Votes: 0

I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or Mohammed. Votes: 0

I think cartoons are important. Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons. Votes: 0

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart. Votes: 0

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer. Votes: 0

In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets. Votes: 0

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else. Votes: 0

Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again. Votes: 0

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara. Votes: 0

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me. Votes: 0

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives? Votes: 0

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist. Votes: 0

Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.' Votes: 0

I'm a huge fan of Warner Brothers cartoons. I would spend many hours alone after school watching Daffy Duck. I think Daffy Duck is one of the great comedic villains. Votes: 0

I always loved cartoons but the process seemed so difficult. Then I told myself, "Nothing good comes easy." So, I took a plunge and started my first animation stint in 2003. Votes: 0

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them. Votes: 0

For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with? Votes: 0

When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up. Votes: 0

I used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles. Votes: 0

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them. Votes: 0

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. Votes: 0

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic. Votes: 0

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George. Votes: 0

A lot of the issues I faced in junior high was what got me into animation. It was easier to sit on the side and draw cartoons than to engage with people. Votes: 0

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. Votes: 0

So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon. Votes: 0

I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I'm proudest of. Votes: 0

You know when you bring your voice to different voiceover things like video games and cartoons, and I do tons of stuff like that in voiceovers and whatnot, it's very fun and freeing. Votes: 0

Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children. Votes: 0

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined. Votes: 0

I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC. Votes: 0

There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue. Votes: 0

There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims. Votes: 0

None of the cartoons that I ever did are basically, if they're about sex, they're about sex in sort of this, you know, this ironic way, or the way that people actually treat it. Votes: 0

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction. Votes: 0

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it. Votes: 0

I read the 'New Yorker' when I was a kid. I used to love the cartoons and pick the cartoons out of the library, so I felt I knew the world of their cartoons. Votes: 0

We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture. Votes: 0

I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects. Votes: 0

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life. Votes: 0

I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it - Hammertime - I loved that cartoon, it was genius! They don't make cartoons like that anymore. Votes: 0