Illustration Career Quotes

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

I knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art teacher usually came to our classroom once a week, but she was absent that day. Instead, our regular teacher gave us each a huge piece of paper and crayons, and we could do whatever we wanted.

I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.

I think 'Prince Valiant' was the first cartoon I ever did.

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

It's not really an easier racket than acting is. For some reason, I guess it had - the rejection of an illustrator's life is less penetrating than the rejection of an actor's life. So I was able to manage that. But all the while, I still nursed that old dream of being an actor.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.

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

I used to sit in the studio with a copy of the (Saturday Evening) Post laid across my knees ... And then I'd conjure up a picture of myself as a famous illustrator and gloat over it, putting myself in various happy situations, surrounded by admiring females, deferred to by office flunkies at the magazines, wined and dined by the editor.