Marjane Satrapi Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears.

My first influences were superhero artists.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

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

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

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

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

I'm not into cartoons. That's the irony of it.

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

Cartoons are probably my favorite thing to do.

It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

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

Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.

I had a few comics, but I was by no means a huge aficionado. I was more of a 'Mad Magazine,' 'Calvin & Hobbes' sort of nerd.

The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

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.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.