Steven Wright Quotes

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

I did painting before I did photography.

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing.

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.

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

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

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

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.