Natasha Khan Quotes

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

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.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

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

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.

I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed.

I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

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