• I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 164 reads

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• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  4.1 · 37 votes · 199 reads

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• In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 165 reads

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• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.5 · 58 votes · 15 reads

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• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.6 · 25 votes · 24 reads

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• Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.1 · 62 votes · 149 reads

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• The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.8 · 40 votes · 119 reads

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• There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.0 · 53 votes · 33 reads

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• What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.2 · 5 votes · 164 reads

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