Natalie Babbitt Quotes

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

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

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.

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

I have a BFA in illustration.

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.

Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation.

I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.

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 got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.

I was an artist before I got into interiors.

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

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

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

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

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.