29 Quotes by Pat Oliphant

An outsider’s point of view is always handy.

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you’re just drawing like a farmer and you don’t know why.

Correct me if I’m wrong – the gizmo is connected to the flingflang connected to the watzis, watzis connected to the doo-dad connected to the ding dong.

I can always see what I’ve done wrong. I’m always learning. I’m the perennial student.

We’re all idealistic when young.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don’t know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don’t mess with innovation, and they become boring.

I’ve always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

I don’t think there’s more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I’ve been really truly happy with in all the time I’ve been doing it.