Rolf Harris Quotes

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

I wanted to be a painter.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

Before I reached 10 years old, I knew I was going to be an artist.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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

You know you are an artist if you appreciate beauty.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.