Larry Rivers Quotes

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I'm an artist at heart.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

I am just an artist.

I'm an artist in my heart.

I like to think of myself as a true artist.

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

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

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

I've always been a fine artist.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.

From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

Why do you think my name is Artist? I'm an artist.

Me wanting to be an artist never really faded away. I knew that no matter what else I tried to pursue, my passion was always that.

I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're gonna do that, is someone who feels like an outsider. The world is not really set up for that.

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

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

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