Harry Anderson Quotes

I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

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

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

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

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.

I just don't understand why more actors aren't artists.

I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.

I wish I were a really good photographer.

I like art; if I could just draw pictures all day, I would, but I can't; I'm horrible. I practiced at it, still didn't get better - gave it up. I'm good with words, though, so I write music, poetry; sometimes I just journal in my phone.

It is just satisfying to think that, somehow, my music and my story could touch someone and make them want to make their own life better.

Since I liked to draw, I entered a design-oriented high school.

My mom was a painter and loves to sing behind closed doors.

I never really felt like I quite fit in. Other boys were playing sports and into hunting and stereotypically masculine activities. I was always more attracted to the arts. I loved to dance, I loved to sing, and I always knew I would be an actor. I don't really know why.

I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

When I have time, I write other things. I'm working on a book, I paint, I sculpt, I play with my dog, I watch television - I catch up on South Park or movies or whatever I've missed, normal stuff.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep...An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and improv in a drama club in the evenings. Then I discovered you didn't need qualifications to go to art school, you just needed a body of work.