Cornelia Parker Quotes

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great. I did a tiny bit in the one school in Paris, and it was wonderful because you'd have a nude taking a crazy position, and you'd have 10 seconds to do a drawing. Then you'd do a one-minute drawing.

Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance.

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.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

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.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.

I love to draw and paint. I did all the illustrations in my books, so I always have my watercolours with me. I was creative as a child and studied art at Central Saint Martins before getting into food.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.