Emma Tennant Quotes

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

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

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

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 love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

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

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

All gardening is landscape painting.

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

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

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've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

I'm really into gardening.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.