Jonathan Winters Quotes

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

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.

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.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

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

When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

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

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

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

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

I went to art school when I was little.

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

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.

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

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.