Jonathan Hickman Quotes

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

When you're not hearing my voice, I'm working on art. So if you're not hearing me, I'm working for the people and getting inspired.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

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

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.

I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.