Dan Colen Quotes

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on.

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

I'm an artist at heart.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

I am just an artist.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

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

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

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

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.