Edward Ruscha Quotes

Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

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

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

Why do you think my name is Artist? I'm 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.

Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked around and it was like, "Wow, I don't really want to study math. I don't really want to study science. I don't really want to study literature. Is there a place where I can go and draw cartoons?"

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.