Jimmy Carter Quotes

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

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

I believe in art.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'

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

I think it's great when girls are artistic.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.