Lee Unkrich Quotes

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

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.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how it was going to happen - or what it was going to be.

After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.

I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college.

My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.

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