58 Quotes by Jim Woodring

Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But creating a monumental work of architecture, or writing a great symphony, is something else. It’s a higher order of creation.

The books that I do, the stories I write – I’m glad I’m able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I’m not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do.

I’ve often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don’t know enough about the real world to write one.

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.