Michael Foreman Quotes

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of.

I have been drawing all my life.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how it was going to happen - or what it was going to be.

I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I never dreamed I'd be in Congress, or even in the NFL, for that matter. Well, I guess I dreamed about being in the NFL, but I didn't believe it would happen. I'm not the biggest guy. But I guess that's the story of my life.

I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this.

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.

My work unblocks people, and then I look at the work that they do, and I think, 'My God, how could they not have known they were talented? How could they not have known?'

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

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

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.