Always Quote by Jeffrey Brown

I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.

— Floyd Cooper

I'm a writer who just happens to draw

— Matt Groening

I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.

— Ryan Guzman

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.

— Irving Stone

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

— Len Wein

All my work begins with drawings.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

— Raoul Peck

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

— Jack Prelutsky

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because…

— Raina Telgemeier

I know I can always draw, but I actually love the writing the most.

— Stephan Pastis

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I…

— Jonathan Hickman

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

— Scott Avett