Howard Terpning Quotes

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

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

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

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.

There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the one that pulled me the most.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

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

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.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

I never thought about doing anything other than making art.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.