Brian Michael Bendis Quotes

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.

I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

I think I always wanted to be an artist. I sort of just followed my passion right out of high school, and everything kind of evolved for me.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

I am a freelance artiste.

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

I did freelance cartooning off and on from college graduation in 1991 through ABC News hiring me in 2003. I did a weekly comic strip for 'Roll Call' for about nine years. I sold cartoons and caricatures to 'The Los Angeles Times' and 'The Washington Post.' I drew as much as I could. It's really tough to make a living doing it.

I wanted to be an artist; it was be an artist or be an actor.

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.

I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

Watching my stepfather and mother working in the industry - acting and composing - and seeing firsthand how difficult it is to achieve a successful career in the theater, I thought it might be safer to go to art school with the aim of becoming a painter.