Nana Patekar Quotes

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

I started painting when I was in high school.

My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

Everybody draws when they are little.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

I can speak to my experience and say that CalArts worked out very well for me. After CalArts, I went to Cartoon Network, and then came to Disney.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

I am by trade a designer, and I did Fine Art for my degree.

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

Bring the arts back, and treat it with respect.

When I was just 13 years old, I even painted cinema posters.

My family moved out of London's East End to a tiny village. The school I went to was supposed to be mixed gender, but there were hardly any boys born that year. So, yes, joining a youth theatre was a fun way to meet the opposite sex!

I didn't want to be in high school. I didn't want to go to grade school. I wanted to learn rock n' roll and paint pictures and throw pots and write haiku and study film.

I've exhibited quite a few of my photographs. I expand them digitally till they're very big. It's an art school thing, I suppose.

I kind of grew up with a camera in my hand.

I think it would be criminal if there was no art in school.

I got a C in art when I was in 11th grade. That it is even possible to come out of a high school art class with a C is wondrous, especially considering the creative license we were encouraged to use to, for lack of a better axiom, color outside the lines.

I was really grateful for the photography classes, the art classes, and the video classes. They would let me skip all my other classes and stay and work on my projects.

I feel like kids don't dream big enough. With art being taken out of school, it's important to know you can create as well.

I knew I wanted to be an artist early on, but I decided to seriously pursue the profession when I auditioned for Juilliard.

I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.

I'm a very visual person, which is probably why I make videos rather than write scripts.

I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.