Jeffrey Brown Quotes

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

I love very much to draw animals.

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.

That was always my dream as a kid: to draw comic books.

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

Cartoons are probably my favorite thing to do.

I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.

In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

I used to draw a lot.

Mike Mulipola is a fantastic artist.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

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

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.