Caricaturist

Leonardo da Vinci

Mathematics

Renaissance

1452–1519

"Subito salse in me due cose: paura e desiderio: paura per la minacciante e scura spelonca, desiderio per vedere se là entro fusse alcuna miracolosa cosa. (Ancient Italian)"

🇺🇸Walt Disney

Entertainment

1901–1966

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."

🇮🇷Javad Alizadeh

Philosophy

b. 1953

"I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!"

🇺🇸Stephan Pastis

Law

b. 1968

"When you’re a cartoonist, you sort of have to be, like, sensitive – or maybe open’s a better word – to what’s going on around you. When you’re an attorney, you’re just like a bulldog with your head down."

🇬🇧Ralph Steadman

Literature

b. 1934

"Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released."

🇬🇧Max Beerbohm

Literature

1872–1956

"All fantasy should have a solid base in reality."

🇺🇸Scott Adams

Literature

1957–2026

"We use only the finest days of the week in this dish."

🇺🇸Jules Feiffer

Literature

1929–2025

"It is not size or age or childishness that separates children from adults. It is "responsibility."

William Hogarth

Art

Realism

1697–1764

"Experience teaches us that the eye may be subdued and forced into forming and disposing of objects even quite contrary to what it would naturally see them, by pre judgement of the mind or some other persuasive motive."

🇫🇷Charb

Journalism

1967–2015

"Muhammad isn't sacred to me. I don't blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law. I don't live under Quranic law."

🇩🇪Wilhelm Busch (pastor)

Art

1832–1908

"All religions are human attempts to find God. But they all have this in common: they have all gone astray in the fog and have not been able to discover God."

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Literature

Romanticism

1776–1822

"The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art."

🇺🇸Lyonel Feininger

Art

Expressionism

1871–1956

"Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air."

🇬🇧John Tenniel

Art

1820–1914

"It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. … I have done nothing in that direction since."

🇸🇪Tove Jansson

Literature

1914–2001

"A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he’s looking, he’s free, and he finds things he never expected."

🇫🇷Honoré Daumier

Politics

realism

1808–1879

"'The swarm of ducks so darkens the sky that poor Europe does not know which way to go'"

🇮🇹Giovannino Guareschi

Religion

1908–1968

"The party delegate was one of those gloomy, tight-lipped persons who seem to have been made for wearing a red scarf round the neck and a tommy-gun slung from one shoulder."