Robert Indiana Quotes

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

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

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 was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

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

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

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

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

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 am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.