A Quote by Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Cartoonist Wanted Young

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Jean-Michel Basquiat
American - Artist
December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988

Any working cartoonist will tell you this, anybody who's working in a creative field: at some point, it's a job. You have deadlines. I think, for over a year, I refused to make them for publications, because I only wanted to make them when I wanted to make them. But at some point, I was like, "This is crazy, you have an opportunity to be a professional cartoonist.

David Rees

I don't consider myself a cartoonist, because to me a cartoonist has a lot of technical ability to draw and such. However, I do consider myself to have a bit of a cartoonist character. I definitely am analyzing and satirizing pop culture and politics and whatever strikes my fancy.

Perez Hilton

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

Edward Ruscha

If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.

Jeff MacNelly

If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.

Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

My father was a dreamer who was always broke. He wanted to be a cartoonist.

Mort Walker

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

Charles M. Schulz

At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.

Charlie Brooker

I write separately from the inking up. I'm sure this varies from cartoonist to cartoonist; I find that the writing is the hard part and the drawing is the fun part.

Bill Watterson

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.

Matt Groening

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

Michael Stuhlbarg

My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.

John Updike

For a young cartoonist, they have to get going on the web, because that's where everybody goes for their information. And it really works.

Terry Mosher

I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me.