Artistic Inclination Quotes

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater, even though I didn't want to act. For some reason, being in Kansas, you can either be a graphic artist or a visual artist, so I decided, 'I guess I'm going to be a painter.'

I sense an actor in me.

My family has always been inclined to any form of art.

I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.

I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.

Being a Catholic, I was drawn to the mystery of the Latin and the smoke and the mirrors and all of that. That part of my disposition definitely did lend itself to finding my way to the back door of some artistic pursuit.

Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.

Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.

I never really felt like I quite fit in. Other boys were playing sports and into hunting and stereotypically masculine activities. I was always more attracted to the arts. I loved to dance, I loved to sing, and I always knew I would be an actor. I don't really know why.

I knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art teacher usually came to our classroom once a week, but she was absent that day. Instead, our regular teacher gave us each a huge piece of paper and crayons, and we could do whatever we wanted.

For man is by nature an artist.

They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.

You are either born a writer or you are not.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.

I don't have actors in my family, but everyone is pretty artistic.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

I mean I was very shy but I was also very extroverted because I was doing plays. I'd been doing plays since I was a little kid. But, I did feel like an outsider because I went to like a 'college-prep' kind of high school that had a really big football team and was known for its program so I was like this weird boy that did plays.

Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.