Janet Echelman Quotes

After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.

The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

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

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.

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

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

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

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

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

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

I am not an artist which is 'in.'

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

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

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

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

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.