Quotes About Passion

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers.

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?

If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

When people say, 'Who are you?' I'm a sculptor and a painter. That's how I define myself. The acting is fun, and I hope to leave behind a couple things in my life of dramatic integrity and art.

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

To be able to run routes, that's like the greatest thing to me. It's kind of like an art to me. It's like a painter drawing or something like that. That's how I feel every time I run a route.

At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in the living room alone. If you're a painter, you can paint at home. If you write music, you can write on your own.

I wanted to be a painter.

I am not an artist. I am not a painter.

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

Both my parents were painters.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

I want to die painting.