Nigel Barker Quotes

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

You're gifted to do something.

I'm an artist at heart.

Art depends on luck and talent.

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

What I'm good at is making art.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

I love to color.

I've always liked to draw.

Art was a huge passion of Jeff's from a very early age. He took a few lessons one summer. He always had a huge passion for art. Loved Dali. Jeff drew and sketched constantly.

I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

Your talent is in your choice.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.