Matt Groening Quotes

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

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

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.

Cartooning really is just designing.

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.

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

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.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

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

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.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

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

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.

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.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

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

All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.

I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers.

I always idealized the mainstream cartoonists and the packed schedule they worked under.