Quotations
Jean Image said:
« The cartoon is an art in itself and all at once an artistic job. It is creation in all approval of word; this creation, which is the domain of imagination, is comparable in that of a painter in front of its cloth, a sculptor in front of its block of marble, or a writer in front of its virgin sheet of paper. »
« The world of the cartoon is that of our imagination. The world in which the sun, the moon, stars and all living things obey our orders. We invent a small figure and, if he becomes insubordinate we abolish it with an eraser. No dictator has such an absolute power! »
but also:« The cartoon is really universal language because a well conceived film can be understood by everybody and in the five continents »
Claude Santelli, big writer and friend of Jean Image:« My sadness is big today, it is one of the fathers Christmas of France which has just left us »
Serge Kornmann, historian of the Cartoon and member of the Association Frenchwoman of the Cartoon: « Following in it a very French virtuousness, Jean Image did not cease to oppose in impossible word a systematics end of receive! »