If you look at my paintings, you'll see Flora's influence, as well as that of Deitch, Kimball, and other illustrators. That period of jazz-influenced, minimal, Cubist, wacked-out, avant-garde illustration and animation remains my favorite, and is the base upon which I've tried to build my own body of work. Sometimes I paint an object and realize, "Oh no, that's how Jim Flora would have done it!" That usually requires me to paint over said object and try to do it again more "Shag-like," whatever that means. Flora did it like nobody else.
     — Shag

Jim Flora's illustrations have that almost impossible-to-attain quality that work done for commercial consumption rarely has: his drawings and designs are still interesting and lively today, not being rendered moot by forgotten fashion trend, taste, or faded cultural association. On top of this, he was obviously a serious artist who enjoyed doing his work. In other words: he was actually good.
     — Chris Ware

Jim Flora was a big influence for me, and I was inspired by the spontaneity and animation in his work. While designing album covers in the early '80s for groups like The Dickies and Oingo Boingo, I stumbled on Flora's LP covers. I was excited and depressed at the same time. I realized his stuff was so much more new wave or punk, or whatever, than what me and my peers were attempting. He was fresher, more innovative, and just better. Later when I became a kids' book illustrator, I found Flora's books. Though not as animated as his album art, they were, and still are, more exciting than the majority of picture books out there. He was one of a kind.
     — Lane Smith

Exciting eyeball jazz, that was Flora. Simultaneously primitive and modern, a cartoonish blend of Rousseau and Picasso, Miro and Bill Traylor.
     — John Canemaker

"This is going to change the way that I draw," I said out loud in a record store. I was holding an LP called Shorty Courts The Count. The cover seemed to be moving. The balance of the shapes and colors was so perfect. After a few minutes, my eye made it to the bottom right corner. It said, simply, "Flora." With a bit of searching, I found it was Jim Flora. I've been a huge fan ever since, and my drawings were forever changed for the better.
     — Tim Biskup

In the 1940s, Flora's stuff just sent me into a graphic buzz, and I was brazenly imitating his style in my work.
     — Gene Deitch

Jim Flora has a special genius all of his own. When I recently discovered his work, it left me wondering where he had been hiding all these years. I find myself gazing for hours at his paintings and emerging both inspired and disturbed. He's a true original!
     — Jason Lethcoe

Flora's work features great modernist design and eye-catchingly expressive cartoon characters, and neither loses out to the other. There are not many artists who can do that, and no one did it better than Flora.
     — Pete Docter

Jim Flora's surreal images pop off the paper and into the viewer's subconscious. The album covers he illustrated are visual jazz, very playful and improvisational. They're very cool.
     — Gary Baseman