Quotes by John Kricfalusi

John Kricfalusi

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

Artist

Cartoonist

Illustrators

Drawing a funny animal, you don’t need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there’s certain things you can’t leave out.

Animal

Girl

Sexy

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They’re absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

Artist

School

Years

I don’t really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it’s made by cartoonists – and it used to be. When people think of The Simpsons, they think of Matt Groening. They don’t think of whoever the 200 writers are.

Animation

People

Thinking

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

Character

Ideas

Stories

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

Artist

Perspective

Style

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

Ambition

America

Thinking

I used to watch nature shows and laugh at them. Everyone thought I was crazy. “Why are you laughing at a nature show?” Isn’t it beautiful? Isn’t it beautiful watching hyenas eat their young? This was crazy! What’s beautiful about nature is just insane. A bunch of crazy stuff happening.

Beautiful

Crazy

Laughing

I’ll let you in on a secret: I can’t stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It’s just a different style of humor.

Hate

Humor

Style

If you’re a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you’re looking at Family Guy, you don’t have to aim very high.

Family Guy

Kids

Today

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Ambition

America

Animal

Animation

Artist

Beautiful

Cartoon

Cartoonist

Character

Compromise

Crazy

Creating

Department

Expression

Eye

Family Guy

Flying

Girl

Hate

Humor

Ideas

Illustrators

Important

Inspiration

Inspired

Jealous

Kids

Laughing

Modern

Old Movie

People

Perspective

Running

School

Sexy

Stories

Strong

Style

Thinking

Today

Vision

Writing

Years

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Quotes by John Kricfalusi

John Kricfalusi

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

Drawing a funny animal, you don’t need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there’s certain things you can’t leave out.

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They’re absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

I don’t really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it’s made by cartoonists – and it used to be. When people think of The Simpsons, they think of Matt Groening. They don’t think of whoever the 200 writers are.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

I used to watch nature shows and laugh at them. Everyone thought I was crazy. “Why are you laughing at a nature show?” Isn’t it beautiful? Isn’t it beautiful watching hyenas eat their young? This was crazy! What’s beautiful about nature is just insane. A bunch of crazy stuff happening.

I’ll let you in on a secret: I can’t stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It’s just a different style of humor.

If you’re a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you’re looking at Family Guy, you don’t have to aim very high.

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