Quotes About Art

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

I'd become the little surfer in my childhood drawings.

I learned early that I could get attention from adults with my drawings.

If you can say something beautiful in a very terrible way - I was always drawn to that.

We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.

I'm only the third artist who's ever drawn at Gitmo.

I have very little choice. If I don't write, I feel dreadful. So I write.

Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed about working in the theater.

Truly, I never dreamt of becoming an actor - I always wanted to be a director.

Yes, I play dress up! I do it for a living, like a retard!

I love Tilda Swinton and the way she dresses. She always looks like a piece of art.

I love dressing up.

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.

It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me.

I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

Our family is very art driven. We all love to create.

Money is not a driving force for me when it comes to my passion: that is, dramas and films.

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

I have a playroom with my drum set, a guitar, and amplifier at home.