Quotes About Passion

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

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

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.

If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

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

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

I started painting when I was in high school.

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

I paint. I have been painting since I was kid. If I hadn't gone into radio when I did, I probably would have come out of the Army, gone into the art business, and probably would have flopped because I'm not that great.

I've been doing this since I was a kid. Then, I got in trouble for painting like this on the wall, but now, I get paid for it.