Mitch Hedberg Quotes

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

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

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

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

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.

I'll go on '60 Minutes,' and whereas other parents would be like, 'You did a great job. I'm so proud of you,' my mother will be like, 'Your hair - it was not nice.'

I think the whole 'tiger mom' thing is a very common trope. People like to show Asian moms giving pressure, but they don't really show the love that comes with it.

Like every mother, I also want Alia and Shaheen to be happy. Whatever they do, they should feel satisfied doing it. I'm not a paranoid mother who pushes them to settle down.

It's not easy to let our kids be less than perfect.

My greatest fear is that I'll fail my kids.

I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.

I would probably confess that I was the greatest disappointment of my mother's life, but my father only admired his son's moxie, drive, hustle, and wherewithal to pursue his dreams no matter how I achieve them.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

It's quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I've got something completely wrong, and it's good because that ego thing gets zapped for a while.

I was raised in a household where kids' opinions were just as valued as adults and I think that was important for me.

My imagination works well because I didn't have a boob tube for a baby-sitter.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.