Eric Gill Quotes

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

What I'm good at is making art.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

I was never a good artist.

I am not an artist.

Writing is not my forte, but I am good at visualising.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she colors around certain lines.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.