Pierre Coffin Quotes

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always felt like it was what I was supposed to do - but in reality I don't know that I ever had the skill to make it a profession.

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

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

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

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

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

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!

I used to obsessively draw. I was really good at it.

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

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.

Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

I have been drawing all my life.