Leandra Medine Quotes

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

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

I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in.

I feel like kids don't dream big enough. With art being taken out of school, it's important to know you can create as well.

Growing up, I just always doodled, which is the worst word for it. I would just draw things in class, get yelled at by my teachers, get my drawings taken away. That stuff happened all the time.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great. I did a tiny bit in the one school in Paris, and it was wonderful because you'd have a nude taking a crazy position, and you'd have 10 seconds to do a drawing. Then you'd do a one-minute drawing.

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters.

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

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

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

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