Art Quote by Mike Royer

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…

— Bill Watterson

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

— Ian Mckellen

Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is…

— Stanley Morison

Drawing' is telling a story with pictures. 'Writing' is telling a story with words.

— Butch Hartman

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

— Stephan Pastis

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

— Marjane Satrapi

There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.

— John Kricfalusi

I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture…

— Tove Jansson

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning…

— Ruth Ozeki

Cartooning isn't really drawing, any more than talking is singing... The possible vocabulary of comics is by definition unlimited, the tactility of an experience…

— Chris Ware

I'm a writer who just happens to draw

— Matt Groening