Joel Courtney Quotes

I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

I wish I could draw.

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

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

I can draw really well.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

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

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

I have been drawing all my life.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.