Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

For years, I kept the two separate: Michael Horse the artist and Michael Horse the actor. I like the acting, but I'm an artist; that's my identity.

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 did local theater and plays in school. I think there was a sense of entertaining - being on the stage, making people laugh, making people cry - that I was drawn to. It was also one of those things like, "I can do this for a very long time."

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on.

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved in it, it's something that you can't ignore. It's the chance for you to have a voice and create something from yourself.

I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.

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.

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.