Ira Levin Quotes

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

I'm an image-maker.

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

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

For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.

I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

It's not really an easier racket than acting is. For some reason, I guess it had - the rejection of an illustrator's life is less penetrating than the rejection of an actor's life. So I was able to manage that. But all the while, I still nursed that old dream of being an actor.

I used to draw a lot.

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

I can draw really well.

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.