Jason Momoa Quotes

I come from a family of artists.

I don't come from a family of artists.

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think.

Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.

Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation.

Neither of my parents are involved in theater or acting, but they are very artistic. My mom is a painter; she's an artist. She went to school for fashion illustration. My father is into collecting antiques and fine wine, so they're both really creative people.

I grew up with artists.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

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

Everyone in my family has some kind of artistic tendency. My great grandmother was a jewelry designer, and her daughter was a ceramic tile muralist.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

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

There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.

I was fortunate because I had parents who believed that being a writer was a perfectly acceptable thing to want to be. They'd actually hoped that I might be an artist, and I was lucky again to grow up with people who delighted in making things: my father wove baskets and painted furniture and carved wood figures; my mother quilted and embroidered and sewed.

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's a bluegrass musician. It's always been a part of the family.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.