Claes Oldenburg Quotes

I've always been a fine artist.

Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.

I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

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.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

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

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

Writing is not my forte, but I am good at visualising.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

I wanted people to know that I'm not just a guy who does weird videos on the Internet. I actually am a filmmaker, and I can tell stories, and I can create something that's 90 minutes long that feels just like any other movie you see in the theater, and hopefully enjoy.

For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.