Jason Wu Quotes

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.

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.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

I have become an employee of art.

I know how difficult it is to make a career in the arts, but even if you don't make a career of it, don't lose it as a hobby. Artists often end up in jobs that have nothing to do with their art. But that side needs to be fulfilled - don't give it up.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.