Ralph Bakshi Quotes

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.

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

Cartoons are probably my favorite thing to do.

My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age, but also by the Warner Bros. cartoons, 'Tom and Jerry,' and of course Disney. And also by Fellini's 'Giulietta of the Spirits' and Kurosawa's 'Ran.' And by other American illustrators and painters.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

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.

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.