William Hanna Quotes

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

I'm a firm believer that you don't have to pick one career path.

I like to create stuff. I like to express myself through jokes.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

I'm a writer slash designer slash TV personality.

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

I worked as an interior designer. I worked as a furniture salesman. I worked as a financial adviser. I worked as a painter and decorator - that wasn't for very long. I was a baker for about four-and-a-half years.

I will be a historical painter.

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.

I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.

I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.

I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.