Approach Quote by Chris Ware

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

— Bob Kane

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. After I left, I spent a year doing nothing in…

— Akira Toriyama

In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself.

— Bob Kane

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

— Marie Lu

When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw.

— Ryan North

I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out…

— Cornelia Parker

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

— Russell Banks

I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

— Mary Quant

Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized…

— Paul Smith

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing…

— Richard Donner

I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 -…

— Alex Kingston