Mankoff Quotes

I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here. — Robert Mankoff

I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column. — Robert Mankoff

I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding. — Sally O'Reilly

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer. — Robert Mankoff

The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure. — Robert Mankoff

'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it. — Robert Mankoff

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A. — Robert Mankoff

I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach. — Robert Mankoff

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong. — Robert Mankoff

The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert. — Robert Mankoff

There is no Algorithm for Humor — Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do. — Robert Mankoff

It's always harder satirize what you like rather than what you dislike. — Robert Mankoff

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else. — Robert Mankoff

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't. — Martin Parr

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had. — Robert Mankoff

There are no cartoons about happy marriages. — Robert Mankoff

The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye. — Herodotus

I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway. — Mark Indelicato

A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself. — Robert Mankoff

One of the first comic things you do is imitate. — Robert Mankoff

One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."
Mike Mankoff — Mike Mankoff

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally. — Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist. — Robert Mankoff

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that. — Robert Mankoff

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic. — Robert Mankoff

If you are ever asked why you are single, tell them:
It's because you haven't found someone amazing
enough to change your status — Steven Aitchison

If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up. — Robert Mankoff

You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else's. — Nicky Gumbel

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced. — Robert Mankoff

There are no creeds in mathematics. — Peter Drucker

I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes. — Robert Mankoff

It's not the ink, it's the think. — Robert Mankoff