St. Lucia Quotes

When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant.

I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.

I was voted most artistic in school.

In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

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.

The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

The best of any artist is in their art.

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.

As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it.

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.