Gilbert Hernandez Quotes

The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations.

The lead of a film that wove around me, I played all the roles. I traveled the world; I loved life, pleasure. I adored to write, create.

I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

Our art is an adventure. It is a dream come true.

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.