Saul Steinberg Quotes

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

I have been drawing all my life.

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.

I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

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

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.

Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.

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 hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

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

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!