Joseph Barbera Quotes

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

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

I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'

I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she colors around certain lines.

I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'

I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

I wish I could draw.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

I'm the seventh child among eight siblings and have always had a gift for art.

I draw plays every day.

Growing up, I just always doodled, which is the worst word for it. I would just draw things in class, get yelled at by my teachers, get my drawings taken away. That stuff happened all the time.

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 must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.