Jamie Wyeth Quotes

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

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 found I have to stay painting.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.

I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

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

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

My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

I have been drawing all my life.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

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

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.