贺友直说:“我这个人出身不是书香门第,我的父亲也没有多少文化,我自己做工、学徒、当兵,从社会底层上来,看的都是社会底层的东西。我不可能成为一个国画家,更不可能成为一个油画家,我成为一个连环画家适得其所。”这位一辈子不改初衷的连环画家,当年在新加坡举办个人画展时,新加坡国宝级诗人潘受在画展开幕式上说,贺友直只有小学毕业,能 He You straight said: “I am not a person from a scholarly family background, my father did not have much culture, my own work, apprenticeship, soldier, from the bottom of society, to see are the bottom of the community .I can not be A painter of the country, but also less likely to become an oil painter, I became a comic strip artist at home. ”" This is a life-long comic artist, held in Singapore that year solo exhibition, the Singapore national poet Pan by painting exhibition At the opening ceremony, He You straight only primary school, can