Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.
Bill Watterson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
Author
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Necessity
Sport
Team
Sports
Better
Work
Input
Like
Animation
People
Fewer
More quotes by Bill Watterson
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
Bill Watterson
In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.
Bill Watterson
The problem with people is that they're only human.
Bill Watterson
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Bill Watterson
S...For Stupendous! T...For Tiger, ferocity of! U...For Underwear, Red! P...For Power, Incredible! E...For excellent physique! N...For...Um...Something..Hm, well, I'll come back to that... D...For Determination! U...For...Wait, How do you spell this? Is it I??
Bill Watterson
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.
Bill Watterson
Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
Bill Watterson
It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.
Bill Watterson
I always think of Popeye and Barney Google as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.
Bill Watterson
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Bill Watterson
Verbing weirds language.
Bill Watterson
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
Bill Watterson
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.
Bill Watterson
Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.
Bill Watterson
For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!
Bill Watterson
Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.
Bill Watterson
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
Bill Watterson
Obviously the role of comics is changing very fast. On the one hand, comics are widely accepted and taken seriously. On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
Bill Watterson
My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.
Bill Watterson
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
Bill Watterson