LL Cool J Quotes

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

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

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

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

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.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I love being creative in all forms.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

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

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately.

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.

We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

I can concentrate on my art.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

I believe that all forms of creativity are related.