Hope Jahren Quotes

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

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

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

I will never, most likely, be good at the piano, but thanks to it, I will never forget the humbling, infuriating, necessary slowness of progress in any artistic endeavor.

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

I was a pretty alert kid, and I, you know, I was very interested in arts.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

Art depends on luck and talent.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

I believe in art.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.